Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi

Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DavidGA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  RIP Peter David, who died yesterday.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Peter David

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_David

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  • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh shit! 😭

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• data1701d@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, but I have very occasionally come back to it as a hobby project over the past year because I have been trying to collect a dataset of Majel’s lines in order to train a text to speech voice.

  Usually, I’d find that a bit unethical, but in this case, they literally tried to do that before she died, which I think is as close to consent to such a reproduction as most passed actors could give. Also, it’s mostly for fun for something like HomeAssistant on Raspberry Pi.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is an interesting point. I once heard an anecdote that Jimmy Cagney hated being impersonated in Warner’s cartoons, but Bogart got a kick out of it. The same with Weird Al, some folks love getting parodied and others refuse to have him touch their songs.

    Personally, I think it would be pretty sweet if some spaceship three hundred years from now was using her voice .

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    • data1701d@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I view satirical voice impression and speech synthesis of a real person as two different ethical issues entirely.

      I find impressions intended for satire fall within the real of the first amendment, while the latter can be an unwelcome appropriation of identity when done wrong.

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      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Technology changes everything. Thee were “Tijuana bibles” showing famous folks for years; Deep Fake tech changes that entirely.

        It’s more than you and I can settle. Good night.

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