stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · 2 years agoStriking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1744arrow-down128file-textcross-posted to: moviesandtv@lemmy.filmtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1716arrow-down1external-linkStriking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AIfortune.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: moviesandtv@lemmy.filmtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down7·2 years agoFair enough. It’s not theft, it’s something else. But that’s just semantics, though. The point is that his voice is being used without his permission, and that companies, profiteering people, and scammers will do so using his voice and the voices others. He likely wants some kind of law against this kind of stuff.
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down13·2 years agoIt’s emotionally charged semantics.
Fair enough. It’s not theft, it’s something else.
But that’s just semantics, though.
The point is that his voice is being used without his permission, and that companies, profiteering people, and scammers will do so using his voice and the voices others. He likely wants some kind of law against this kind of stuff.
It’s emotionally charged semantics.