stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · 1 year agoStriking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1743arrow-down128file-textcross-posted to: moviesandtv@lemmy.filmtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1715arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square78fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: moviesandtv@lemmy.filmtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down7·1 year 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-down13·1 year 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.