Recreating actors’ voices with AI means more boring Hollywood crud
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nypost.coma report in the New York Times, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA is rightly enraged by a chilling provision in some Netflix contracts demanding performers sign over their voices to the studio to be digitally recreated — potentially for whatever it pleases: movies, TV shows, ads, anything.The outrageous requirement amounts to the potential AI-ification of acting — digital carbon copies that rob performances of spontaneity, heat and, well, humanity.
The shameful death of art is unfolding before our very eyes.The dystopian documents ask permission for the signee’s unique sound to be artificially replicated “by all technologies and processes now known or hereafter developed throughout the universe and in perpetuity.”Throughout the universe?
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