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NEWS: 81Produce Agency, AI Company ElevenLabs Partner on AI Dubs Based on Voice Talent

No, that's just not true. Synthesizing voices for other languages that try to match well known performances would always have taken small time roles away from people. They literally say that the goal is to make different language versions based on the Japanese voice actor, which means that any dub actor for every other language is put out of business.

That would definitely be wrong whether or not AI was a popular topic. Also AI are still trained to mimic people using stolen data before you train it to sound like a VA, so even if they train it on these people's data it still used stolen data to make the product that mimicks VAs.

To be honest I would rather we have a real performance done on the language track. Now that I am back into buying Blu-rays that cost a pretty penny I would certainly never shell out that much money for a lazily slapped together AI product that puts the dubbing industry out of comission with my support, especially if they expected me pay full price for a half baked dub.

They are only saying this because they know the AI dub fiasco shines a bad light on their company. If they really wanted to stop people from being used in bad, unauthorized dubs then they wouldn't be doing it only for people under their contract, they are just trying to scare us with Amazon's rogue AI behavior so we view them in a better light when they steal just as much besides the rights of a single actor, but that doesn't mean their technology doesn't exploit the work of many other actors.

…gross. I know (or at least hope really hard) that the voice actors involved fully understand what they’re getting themselves into, but this still leaves a oily, disgusting taste in my mouth. I hope the agency/company at least has the integrity and decency to clearly label whatever they decide to use this AI on as such, so that I can avoid those works like the plague.

Disgusting. There's no such thing as "ethical" use of AI. Voices agreeing is just one aspect. There's still the massive environmental, societal, and cultural damage that AI does. People like Kaji are only really thinking about themselves. He gets to do less work while AI does what should be his job, all at while screwing over the planet and the industry. I've seen people argue now they can do more roles at the same time. But that just means they're stealing opportunities from other actors too. There's no true benefit to AI. It just allows some people to be lazy while most others get screwed over. It's terrible for the industry. It's terrible for creativity. The fact that anyone is praising it and pushing for it is so vile and short-sighted.

Look, AI by itself is fine, we already use some sort of AI in our lives before the word became a buzzword... What kaji is doing is fine, if he announced this thing before AI became a buzzword, nobody would bat an eye.

Idk if you were responding to me, but if you were, the kaji thing he did wasnt bad, unless i did not understand that article? But other than that yeah, the whole AI can be threatening to the dub industry, we will see what happens.

And I fully expect a universally negative reaction.

Also, people like their dub industries. Most anime fans that watch dubs have dub actors they enjoy and want to see in anime they like, even if they are critical of their performances. So replacing any number of those performances with an AI voice that is made to mimic Japanaese VAs using stolen labor is pretty bad to me.

Trying to get into this while MS just announced they're scaling back AI plans due to Copilot flopping is a sign the bubble is already bursting and now people are in a mad dash to rip the copper out of the walls. Companies panic-buying RAM and storage, it's because they're trying to negotiate a hostage deal to escape financial ruin. This whole project is stupid. May they reap what they sowed