It does, yes. And they can also choose to opt out of future uses of their voice in the AI trained model. Which essentially means that their contracts are on a per-project basis, rather than forcing them to contract for the current project and any future use of the model by the game developer.
Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal
dojan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m hoping this also means that voice actors can choose not to enter such a deal?
arquebus_x@kbin.social 5 months ago
dojan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The way I see it, if they want to train models on someone’s voice they should hire them specifically for that purpose. Ergo, clips that are used in production should not be used for training voice models.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes but it also means that the studios can only hire someone who will sign off on it.
dojan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not if they want a particular name, like Elias Toufexis seems pretty against having his voice cloned.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s fine for people who are established, but unions are supposed to protect all members, especially the ones just getting started who don’t have as much bargaining power.
dojan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Then everyone should unionise and fall under the same protections. It’s how it works here in Sweden.