That's correct, but it's important to distinguish something explicitly here. The voices may not be copyrightable, but the dialogue is, as long as it's not also generated by AI (i.e., dynamically generated). Also, the trained model that generates the voice is still proprietary: only its product (and only the sound itself, not the words if the speech is from a script) can be openly used.
Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal
Jaysyn@kbin.social 8 months agoNew voices generated by AI can't be covered under copyright law, so I doubt they will see much use from corporations.
arquebus_x@kbin.social 8 months ago
KillerTofu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yet. Once upon a time we couldn’t patent an organism and yet now GMOs and companies like Monsanto abuse the legal framework.