#I think the only ethical voice synthesis ones are vocaloids and tts with a small pool of compensated speakers tbh

[venacoeurva]

I feel kind of insane that it was a very strong consensus that AI voices are unethical because the original VAs never consented to their voices being used in this way, are not compensated, and their voices are being used for things they never agreed/would never agree to say and it doesn't matter if these uses are commercial in nature or not, it feels very ghoulish, but one of the biggest trends rn is AI covers of songs and they're being pumped out like crazy and people are falling over themselves to defend people who don't have big time production budgets using them instead of hiring someone on Fiverr or imitating the voices themselves or voice clip mixing and sampling pre-existing lines like the olden days. ok. alright. Good to see some of you out there have the moral fortitude of a wet paper straw

#vena vents #not art #I think the only ethical voice synthesis ones are vocaloids and tts with a small pool of compensated speakers tbh #Because yeah your voice might read out some weird shit but you kind of gotta know and accept that before being sampled for those purposes #the VAs in the case of AI did not agree to that and are all very vocal about not wanting their voices sampled #I feel like most who were aware of uberduck and w/e early on just kind of didn't care because it was obvious clunky tts for fun #but creative AI are so predatory and violating and often hard to parse if AI or not these days it's way different