This is pretty disturbing, I hope she gets a massive paycheck for this violation.

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    This is stealing her voice. It’s just plain wrong.

    What I really don’t understand is, even if you think AI voice is okay, why not just make an original voice? Why you got to steal somebody’s voice? Or if you don’t want to do that, why not just get consent for the specific thing you’re doing? Don’t take advantage of the fact that she previously recorded her voice as an aid for the blind and steal her voice because of some small text in a contract. That’s dishonest and pathetic.

    You’re the railway. Do you know how many people love and obsess over trains and railways? There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers. How did it come to this? How incompetent can you be?

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      What you really don’t understand is, AI making an original voice is a pipe dream. You can average out voices of many different people who all had their content stolen. Originality is outside of its training set.

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        There are different things we’re calling AI. One is engaging in endeavors that are traditionally seen as creative, like text or image generation.

        The AI we are talking about for this story is a text to speech engine that creates a believable voice. The voice parameters may be created by a human or AI or whatever. But that creation of the parameters of a voice is not the type of AI that we are talking about in this story.

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      There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers.

      Yeah, but it needs to be clear, and as much as I love Dave from the pub, he tends to mumble.

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      why not just get consent for the thing that you’re doing

      I would imagine because consent would require opening the door to paying someone for use of their likeness, and if they were going to pay someone fairly they could just pay a voice actor. The whole thing is a means of getting what they want without paying for it