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
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
Dec 16, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday, a GoFundMe claiming to “protect artists from AI technologies” launched with a $200k goal.
Turns out, it’s actually a scheme to expand corporate IP law on behalf of some of the biggest enemies in the fight for artistic freedom (i.e, Disney)
The campaign aims to work alongside the notorious Copyright Association, whose member companies made their fortune destroying public domain and suing small artists, to install a “full-time lobbyist in DC” to legally bribe expansions to IP law.
