Equity launches toolkit on AI performance cloning
Actors' union, Equity, has launched a new AI toolkit to protect performers from the growing use of AI across the entertainment industry.
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Actors' union, Equity, has launched a new AI toolkit to protect performers from the growing use of AI across the entertainment industry.
When a friend messaged voice actor Bev Standing to ask whether she was the voice of TikTok’s text-to-speech feature, the Canadian performer’s surprise soon turned to irritation. She had never done work for the popular social media platform, yet the voice was unmistakably hers. Standing concluded that speech recordings she had done for another client years earlier had somehow been obtained by TikTok, and fed into an algorithm which allows users to turn written text into a voiceover for video clips in the app. She sued TikTok in a case that was settled in September — one that performing ar...
With the rise of AI, creators want laws to protect the use of their image or voice in algorithm-generated works.
With the rise of AI, creators want laws to protect the use of their image or voice in algorithm-generated works
New laws needed to protect people from being deepfaked "This gap in protection must be closed" Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Legal reforms are needed to protect people from their image being copied by “deepfake” or AI technology, an expert ha...