SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨alyaza@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-and-replica-studios-introduce-groundbreaking-ai-voice-agreement-ces

this agreement is causing a great deal of distaste in VA spaces this week, perhaps best exemplified by this tweet which asserts that the deal was not sent to membership. as far as i can tell through the grapevine a lot of VAs concur that this was foist upon them suddenly and they were given no chance to vote on it or similar, but it’s hard to say without any more concrete details than social media

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FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As I've been expecting all along, the competition is not going to be between humans and AIs. It'll be between humans that use AIs and those that don't, and the ones that don't will be at a big disadvantage. SAG-AFTRA saw the writing on the wall and wanted to keep its monopoly on what voices are "allowed."

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delmain@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s… no details at all other than “it’s happening”?

Why even announce this with no details, Knowing it’s gonna piss people off? What were sag-aftra and Replica hoping for here?

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- alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  There’s… no details at all other than “it’s happening”?
  
  well, this is a press release strictly speaking (and unions tend to delay releasing specific details of such deals anyways–although, if the allegations are correct i have no idea why they’d do this in this case).
  
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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This seems like another example of the AFTRA merger impacting performers

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fixmycode@feddit.cl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
well, it does say that it was approved by the VA union, so maybe it’s something good?

if it’s royalty based and they get paid everytime they have someone use their voice model, by all means, pay them.

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Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is there a limit to how many jobs a person can take?

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- jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In a world where every job can be performed by an AI? Yes… and that limit is 0.
  
  But in the meantime, it’s getting closer to ∞, so rejoice! (while the pay tends to 1/∞).
  
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