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I hope it goes bankrupt

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors to its newly launched Reader app. The company said the app takes articles, PDF, ePub, newsletters, e-books or any other text on your phone and turns it into voice-overs.

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Seems like their should be some IP law liability here that would make this illegal without at least the permission of the deceased's estage?

I hope all these celeb families sue too. (More bankruptcy material I guess!)

Nobody asked for this.

I do too. Nobody wants this, and more importantly none of THEM have the chance to say no, I am not your voice artist. Disgusting.

This is totally fucked up. I’m rooting for the estates to sue and sue aggressively until the very idea of this sort of business is dead dead dead dead dead as the late actors from whom they’re stealing.

The Terminator can be updated as SkyNet realizing mankind squanders AI on stupid shit and decides we should be wiped out.

I’m starting to wonder if maybe SkyNet would be on to something here.

The greatest civilizations in history have had firm taboos against stealing from the dead. Tech bros: "Yeah, but...MINE. Because GIMME."

I'm going to curse them.

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