Tim Friedlander News Today

Will listeners care if a voice is human or synthetic? That might depend on the book. Or the voice.

Voice actors and rights advocates hope platforms will pay named voices instead of startups that sell AI copies fed by data scraped off the web.

California politicians set the stage for more AI regulation in 2024, but they'll also face challenges as they try to place more guardrails around AI's impact on jobs, safety and discrimination.

The writers’ and actors’ strikes in the US put the spotlight on potential downsides of artificial intelligence in filmmaking. With the strikes settled, some risks remain – but so do dizzying possibilities.

From South Africa to Europe, Japan to the United States, artists are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.

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At New York Comic Con, voice actors and union leadership explained how consent, compensation, and transparency will make AI fair.

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Production studios and fans alike are turning to generative AI tools to make voice actors say things they never said — and their jobs are on the line.

Only by protecting artists can society fulfill – and fully benefit from – the wondrous potential of generative AI.