Got tired of writing 100-char-long variables in java during my 9-5, so I decided to relax with js and created a website where you can clone voices and make them say any text.
As someone with aspirations of voice acting, and who generally believes in consent for usage of voices, stuff like this raises my hackles. I know the cat is out of the bag and there’s legal stuff happening right now around this, but I don’t like seeing more of them pop up. I know you’re doing this for fun and to relax, so I don’t want to be a jerk and assume bad faith or anything, but wanted to be honest about my opinions around this tech.
Come on, all of our butts are on the line. You're not special just because you have aspirations of voice acting. So many jobs are going it's not even funny, if I were you I'd start accepting the inevitable instead of denying it.
The second ChatGPT learns to reason effectively this entire website and its users become useless. We're lucky that AI is kinda bad right now, and we can either hope that it's just a plateau, or prepare for the day when we need to find another job.
I happen to fall into the same group as the previous poster who is a voice actor.
I know you did this as a challenge for fun but in fairness you should keep those challenges to yourself and not publicize them when the technologies involved are a pandora's box or ethically dubious.
I find it really hard to think of a single plausible use for this type of technology that is beneficial.
Nearly all uses directly or indirectly cause harm except maybe as voice restoration (for someone mimicking their own voice, whose vocal cords were damaged), and that would only help a limited number of people in these situations.
Used in lieu of voice actors, the demand for jobs in that sector go to zero collapsing the economic cycle/market eventually (non-market socialism->failure).
Same thing for any type of acting really, where it may violate their publicity or other rights.
Then there's the extreme where people use this technology to ransom victims in faux kidnappings.
If you created a public facing website for this, I hope you ran it by a lawyer and have an ironclad liability waiver (which I'm not sure any waiver's actually exist in this area of law that would be sufficiently defensible). Inevitably at some point there is always the question of negligence that comes up after harms have been done.
You don't want to be named in criminal lawsuits as a co-conspirator or otherwise, when your service/application is used by criminals to commit crimes.
Got tired of writing 100-char-long variables in java during my 9-5, so I decided to relax with js and created a website where you can clone voices and make them say any text.
Under the hood, it uses the OS solution xtts-v2
What do you think?
As someone with aspirations of voice acting, and who generally believes in consent for usage of voices, stuff like this raises my hackles. I know the cat is out of the bag and there’s legal stuff happening right now around this, but I don’t like seeing more of them pop up. I know you’re doing this for fun and to relax, so I don’t want to be a jerk and assume bad faith or anything, but wanted to be honest about my opinions around this tech.
Come on, all of our butts are on the line. You're not special just because you have aspirations of voice acting. So many jobs are going it's not even funny, if I were you I'd start accepting the inevitable instead of denying it.
The second ChatGPT learns to reason effectively this entire website and its users become useless. We're lucky that AI is kinda bad right now, and we can either hope that it's just a plateau, or prepare for the day when we need to find another job.
But asking nicely will get no one anywhere.
I happen to fall into the same group as the previous poster who is a voice actor.
I know you did this as a challenge for fun but in fairness you should keep those challenges to yourself and not publicize them when the technologies involved are a pandora's box or ethically dubious.
I find it really hard to think of a single plausible use for this type of technology that is beneficial.
Nearly all uses directly or indirectly cause harm except maybe as voice restoration (for someone mimicking their own voice, whose vocal cords were damaged), and that would only help a limited number of people in these situations.
Used in lieu of voice actors, the demand for jobs in that sector go to zero collapsing the economic cycle/market eventually (non-market socialism->failure).
Same thing for any type of acting really, where it may violate their publicity or other rights.
Then there's the extreme where people use this technology to ransom victims in faux kidnappings.
If you created a public facing website for this, I hope you ran it by a lawyer and have an ironclad liability waiver (which I'm not sure any waiver's actually exist in this area of law that would be sufficiently defensible). Inevitably at some point there is always the question of negligence that comes up after harms have been done.
You don't want to be named in criminal lawsuits as a co-conspirator or otherwise, when your service/application is used by criminals to commit crimes.
The juice isn't worth the squeeze imo.