Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI

They already do this regularly in movies, it's part of the ADR process [0]. You've probably heard it many times and not even noticed.

[0] https://www.insider.com/voice-matching-in-movies-2016-3

I just kind of shudder at the thought of a voice actor signing over rights to their voice without appropriate compensation and their career just vanishing (assuming AI gets good enough to outright replace them completely)

In my view, any human that signs over such rights deserves to be well-compensated upfront and should ensure they have a contract that pays them significant royalties for each subsequent use. I suppose maybe the most important part of all of this work-wise is just to have a reasonable contract so one retains some control.

Of course, all of this I say with the disclaimer that I'm not certain I think anyone should sign over such rights. I freely admit I come at this from a perspective that is biased against audio/visual/text-generating (and potentially other forms of) AI, unless it is significantly reigned in through restrictions/regulations. I do not look forward to an AI-dominated future of soulless pseudo-art generated by entertainment corporations.

Cults can often convince all kinds of people of all kinds of things. Long ago LaPlace asserted a clockwork universe; that didn't hold water for too long. Too simplistic.

Just kidding, but really, anecdotes don't constitute evidence that the mind is a 'brain mechanism'. Yep, many of our voluntary and involuntary routine behaviors are quite robot-like .. breathing, eating, sleeping, sexing. That said, some of us are less content with the routine.

The expert systems now being referred to as 'artificial intelligence' are limp P.T. Barnum simulations of true intelligence, and of course there is little substantial evidence to support -any- model of creativity or consciousness ... let alone a mechanical one. In the face of that lack of evidence, a supernatural theory is no worse than a mechanical one.

I prefer and will continue to prefer real intelligence and creativity of the human kind because it is substantially superior to limp simulations ... and because I am a human. I'll resist lowering my standards. Those who've tried to teach machines the mechanics of music have learned from continued failure that great music is beyond any of our so-called 'music theory'. I'll confidently assert that the same is true of dramatic performances.

It's entirely possible that this statement applies to your brain specifically, but not necessarily to all brains

This deserves zooming in on. There seem to be only two options.

1. There are supernatural forces, and we have magical things like a human soul

2. There are no supernatural forces, and our brains are a series of chemical and electrical states, and nothing else

If it is option 2, then you must accept that it is plausible that a machine could be made which could also have those those states, and navigate them like our biological machine. Which path of development leads to this is unknown, but it is illogical to me to say things like "won't ever be able to replace" humans.

I am only repeating and expanding on what you said because this is a realization which I only came to relatively recently and thought it is worth sharing.