a artificial intelligence came to stay. Innovations like ChatGPT and creating art from new technology are already realities. And this story acquires another chapter. But this time around, there’s one overriding complaint: Voice representatives say more and more companies are introducing contractual clauses asking permission to use their voices in AI software.
Understand the controversy
Video game voice actors claim that new contractual clauses require that rights to their voices be waived for use in artificial intelligence programs for the purpose of creating new synthetic voices.
The main concern of the class, which is already suffering from the precariousness of its labor rights, is to replace the profession with artificial voices generated through artificial intelligence.
Today, artificial intelligence generates new creations from a pre-existing database, which contains the votes of thousands of people. Actress Emma Watson has recently been a victim of misuse of technology, as she used her voice to read excerpts from the book “Mein Kampf” by former German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Contract clauses and their impact on art
Some voice actors claim that they are required to sign contracts with said clauses. Others, in turn, say they signed without even knowing that they were giving up their rights to make up votes. artificial.
However, the reality is that some companies use the voices of dubbing actors without their explicit consent, which, for some, constitutes a lack of morality.
Here’s the stance of Steve Blum, the voice actor for audiovisual content like “Ben 10,” “Lilo & Stitch,” and “Resident Evil,” as well as games like “Call of Duty,” “Naruto,” “Age of Empires III,” and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.
Questions surrounding art also continue to arise. For some voice actors and other performers, as much as the voice resembles the human voice, it is still different from the real performance practiced by other humans.
Thus, some of them argue that it is not a kind of art. However, since use of the technology appears to have no return, the category union is now struggling to express consent for the voice actors in these contractual clauses.
