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It's happening. There are real companies who will just use an AI-created rip of my voice to promote their stuff. And there's really no repercussions for it other than being known as this scummy shady company that is willing to stoop that low to sell some product
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Yet you still let ai generated images exist on your app. You can’t just be against voice ai you need to be against all of it
There are repercussions - this is the most straightforward legal case ever and you’d most certainly win. It’s unauthorized use of your voice for commercial purposes, false/misleading as an endorsement, etc…
It’s pretty easy to figure out it’s not you, but will confuse people who don’t frequently watch you
How come companies made voice cloning available without any sort of limit or oversight and they’re not being buried by criticism? We spend so much time worrying about the hypothetical “AI is gonna kill us” that we lost sight of the _actual_, AVOIDABLE harm being done TODAY.
You might have recourse. I’n guessing you have good counsel who can help determine whether it makes sense to pursue a publicity rights and/or false endorsement claim.
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Rob Freund
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There seems to be a lot of confusion over the legality of using "sound-alike" voices of celebrities (whether via AI or an impersonator) and look-alikes in ads. Even if you use an imitation voice or image and not the celebrity themselves, you can have a publicity rights problem👇
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Wow, you just gave them a giant shout out and likely a large nonzero number of people will order their product as a result. “Yeah, it’s not Marques but I like it” is the thinking.
This is no bueno. Please challenge this . you have the resources to challenge this when few others do. It would also be compelling content to follow along with a case. You can challenge this.
Yep, and until there is some counter software for it and ad companies care enough, it can’t be stopped
you have a cause of action against these companies under *right to publicity*. and you are one of the few people who has the resources to file lawuits. good luck!
It's getting pretty rough out there. We failed to get people to use basic common sense before AI — checking sources, thinking critically, etc. Now we have generative AI that you'd think is too obvious to work -- but nope -- added into the mix.
I agree there needs to be some kind of regulation or individual recourse here. Obviously individual lawsuits are possible, but you'll be swatting those flies forever, and it puts a pretty big burden on you and other content creators. Honestly I have no clue how to codify such
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Voice aside, NameDrop is free on every iPhone, 12 and newer. Why even bother with this product?
This makes me mad because I personally worked with dot about a year or so ago making content for them (obviously not this junk). I made short form and even long form tutorial content for them way before this. Their marketing guy and I didn’t align (clearly) on the vision and
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Shouldn't there be regulations against this though? I mean using a particular likeness of a voice (AI generated) for commercial purposed to be licensed? On the contrary it could be considered as mimicry, which I guess is legal to do?
It captures your tone, but the voice isn't quite the same. It's similar, but not exact—it could belong to anyone. In any case, deep-copying is unethical.
The best you can do is to create actual reviews of these products (preferably, and chances are, you will end up bashing these poor products) - they can perpetually fool those less informed users just by changing the voice behind…
Is it really your voice though, how can you say or prove it’s not just a voice actor doppelgänger with a really similar voice?