Thread by @fractalcounty

Hot take or whatever but if you think it’s unethical to use AI voices for indie fan animations with zero budget because you should be “hiring real voice actors” then pretty much every fan animation that uses sentence mixing or existing voicelines is also just as unethical

https://twitter.com/rwmead/status/1690499410726137857

Hobbyists making things for fun have zero obligation to hire anyone and demonizing them for using free resources instead of paying you is absurd rent seeking behavior. A lot of you are a lot more capitalist than your bios suggest is all I’m saying

@QuartsClock You seem like a well read person and I don’t mean to sound condescending or anything but I heavily reccomend looking into the copyleft movement and free culture vs permission culture. It directly applies here

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissio…

@braggrt @Marouanemeftah1 @Neversun421 @camdoesntknow @Carl0sRueda I hate you

@GrandpierreVA Like you can't just record lines and it'll magically make you sound exactly like Peter Griffin. You have to replicate his speaking patterns, pitch, and accent perfectly in your own voice for it to even resemble him. If that's not using human voice and expression idk what is

the argument that AI voice is always "lazy" or "has no human input" isn't even true either, the most popular current technique requires you to provide your own voice with matching pitch, accent, and speech patterns for it to sound decent.

it's like a really good voice changer