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Is this really any different to say using makeup, cosmetic plastic surgery, or even choosing to wear specific clothes?

A lot different? The equivalent would be applying makeup to your mannequin replacement. All the things you mention are decoration. Replacing your voice is more than a surface alteration. I guess if some clever AI decides to take issue with what I say, and uses some enforcement tactic to arm-twist my opinion, I could change my mind.

We already have people editing videos anyway, you never see the first cut. AI-matically removing umms is really just speeding up that process.

I think the suggestion being discussed was AI-cloning your voice, and then using that for text-to-speech. Audio generation, rather than automating the cuts and tweaks to the recorded audio.

Yes exactly. Thanks. Voice cloning was indeed the suggestion made above.

The ethical challenge in my opinion, is that your status as living human narrator on a video is now irrelevant, when you're replaced by voice cloning. Perhaps we'll see a new book by "George Orwell" soon. We don't need the real man, his clone will do.

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