The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human(www.sixthtone.com)
72 pointsby homarp7 hours ago6 comments
  • none25856 hours ago
    The article uses Kafkaesque and boy I cannot think of a better way to describe having to prove to platforms your voice is real because it had been stolen at such scale that people assume it is AI.
  • avaer3 hours ago
    I got a human taste of this in open source a few times: someone would suggest we use project Y rather than building it ourselves. I look at project Y and it's someone trying to make a business out of my FOSS code.

    This is getting worse with AI, as things move too fast for anyone to verify, and AI is getting better at washing things.

    What are you going to do when someone takes your thing with AI and then you're asked to prove it's yours, disputing their mountain of AI generated evidence? The legal system is not prepared to handle what's coming.

  • ncr1006 hours ago
    There we are. A real-world impact to the technology we, as technologists, develop and speak/preach/mandate too-little IMO about how it should be used.
    • Kiro5 hours ago
      You thinking this is an epiphany makes me feel you severely overlook the impact AI already has on the world, affecting everyone. This seems very minor in comparison.
    • JumpCrisscross6 hours ago
      > we, as technologists, develop and speak/preach/mandate too-little IMO

      Has anyone done an employee-coöperative tech start-up?

      • em-bee5 hours ago
        i'd love to join a cooperative myself. there exist a number of them. they mostly seem to do outsourcing/contract work. i suspect that they don't attract investors because the profit distribution would be different from the usual start-ups.
  • JimsonYang2 hours ago
    Voice acting has always been a dying art, but AI for sure is killing it

    Unless the work is higher end theres just so much hassle working with humans. You got to do a casting call, wait weeks to get 100 applicants, listen to all of them, and pray that the VA still actually does a good job. Ive hired VAs in the past and unless the work is very high end, we choose AI and this trend doesnt seem to be stopping.

    For consumers, they dont seem to notice or care. For instance, all those movie recap videos you see on youtube? All AI narration. Those still get 100k+ views

    • fineIllregister2 hours ago
      I'm curious to know what constitutes "higher end". Obviously a theater release isn't going AI yet, but where down the scale do they start using it?
    • JimsonYang2 hours ago
      Btw I know what I said is inflammatory, but this is what Im seeing in industry. Only exception would be in high end work like key VAs in shows and movies
  • JumpCrisscross6 hours ago
    Which countries legally protect one's likeness as one's IP? (Are you allowed to transfer it in them?)
  • redsocksfan456 hours ago
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