The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human
As AI clones of my voice flood platforms like Douyin, I must repeatedly prove I am human to keep working. Clients now prefer cheap synthetic copies over my years of training, forcing me to document theft and fight a losing legal battle. My hard-earned career is eroding as algorithms separate my labor from my identity.
We used to believe that meaningful results required learning and effort, but now everything can be achieved in an instant.
- none2585
The article uses Kafkaesque and boy I cannot think of a better way to describe having to prove to platforms your voice is real because it had been stolen at such scale that people assume it is AI.
- avaer
I got a human taste of this in open source a few times: someone would suggest we use project Y rather than building it ourselves. I look at project Y and it's someone trying to make a business out of my FOSS code.
This is getting worse with AI, as things move too fast for anyone to verify, and AI is getting better at washing things.
What are you going to do when someone takes your thing with AI and then you're asked to prove it's yours, disputing their mountain of AI generated evidence? The legal system is not prepared to handle what's coming.
- JimsonYang
Voice acting has always been a dying art, but AI for sure is killing it
Unless the work is higher end theres just so much hassle working with humans. You got to do a casting call, wait weeks to get 100 applicants, listen to all of them, and pray that the VA still actually does a good job. Ive hired VAs in the past and unless the work is very high end, we choose AI and this trend doesnt seem to be stopping.
For consumers, they dont seem to notice or care. For instance, all those movie recap videos you see on youtube? All AI narration. Those still get 100k+ views