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AI voice acting has considerable potential, especially in RPG games. Imagine playing a game where your characters voice could be your own. Furthermore, NPC could procedurally generate speech based on algorithms. However, cloning the voice of people is controversial, especially when there seems to be no regulation on who can use AI voices.
it's a mod and nobody is making any money out of it, i understand why he's angry, but i doubt there's anything he can do legally here when there's simply no benefit, it's no different than a million of memes of other people faces, Schwarzenegger videos singing Wizard of Oz songs (search it), and so on.
That Elias guy better fight for this stuff and not be afraid to lose out on some work while fighting. If not it's just catharsis and AI voices will proceed.
However, we all know voice actors won't. They will cannibalize each other and jump when the boss says jump, all the while AI voice acting creeps in. Years later, they will lament on social media to stay relevant. More years later, gamers will talk about how much better the good ´'ol days of real voice acting were. Next, someone will write a book about the lost voice actors and make some money and then even more years later no one will even care enough to be nostalgic. Look at the transition from theatre to silent film to talkies, or painting to photography to digital art to AI art.
"Good luck" on your non-fight to stop AI generated content across the board.
Machines have replaced numerous roles. No one has a unique claim to a sound. Someone out there might have a voice almost identical to yours or could mimic it flawlessly. You wouldn't have grounds to sue them for it.
The next few years regarding AI legislation are going to be interesting, to say the least.