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Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)

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A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's really strange, isn't it? You'd think that fediverse users, out of anyone, would be more skeptical of companies trying to consolidate access to user-generated content, take ownership over it, and monetize it. I imagine most of us are Reddit refugees in some sense. Did we learn nothing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it mostly a matter of "most of the copyrighted material belongs to companies, fuck companies", as well as a little bit of "I have nothing to ~~hide~~ steal". And of course a fair dose of "magic box makes pretty pictures, don't take it away". But maybe I'm just cynical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

most of the copyrighted material belongs to companies, fuck companies

Yeah, that does seem to be the center of it.

I don't know what to say to those people.

Cuz they're not wrong. The practical effect of current IP law is to protect the business models of parasitic holding companies whose main role in producing art is to ensure that it is an effective financial instrument.

So from that perspective... Why would I respect Disney's intellectual property rights?

But I recoil at the idea that this means we shouldn't bestow any rights or protections to creative works. It seems to me that the biggest problem with IP rights is that creators are immediately bullied into signing over all of those rights to platforms/publishers/distributors.

And that immediate signing-over to mega corps... is exactly what is going on with OpenAI! But at massive scale!