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Comment by trod1234

I happen to fall into the same group as the previous poster who is a voice actor.

I know you did this as a challenge for fun but in fairness you should keep those challenges to yourself and not publicize them when the technologies involved are a pandora's box or ethically dubious.

I find it really hard to think of a single plausible use for this type of technology that is beneficial.

Nearly all uses directly or indirectly cause harm except maybe as voice restoration (for someone mimicking their own voice, whose vocal cords were damaged), and that would only help a limited number of people in these situations.

Used in lieu of voice actors, the demand for jobs in that sector go to zero collapsing the economic cycle/market eventually (non-market socialism->failure).

Same thing for any type of acting really, where it may violate their publicity or other rights.

Then there's the extreme where people use this technology to ransom victims in faux kidnappings.

If you created a public facing website for this, I hope you ran it by a lawyer and have an ironclad liability waiver (which I'm not sure any waiver's actually exist in this area of law that would be sufficiently defensible). Inevitably at some point there is always the question of negligence that comes up after harms have been done.

You don't want to be named in criminal lawsuits as a co-conspirator or otherwise, when your service/application is used by criminals to commit crimes.

The juice isn't worth the squeeze imo.

parent trod1234 1 year ago

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