[johnnyanmac]

> Jeff here is clearly a good speaker. That's a practiced talent and voice actors exist because it's hard. Elecrow wanted a voice over and they wanted it to be as good as they could make it. Jeff is very good. So did they want Jeff?

Jeff has worked with and endorsed some of their products before, so that puts a wrench in that theory of "well they just picked a clean voice" and makes this almost litgable.

>I think it leads to: "We should consider making it illegal to automatically reproduce the work of an artisan.", you know, the luddic argument. An argument that has been perceived to be, more or less, settled.

There's the labor argument: People who's voices are samples should get a residual on the product they are being used for. Combine that with some sort of lack of liability on the subject when AI is used and we'd have a win-win.

But that requires money and companies don't want to pay other people. So we come at an impasse that leads to the luddite argument. Take the ball and go home if you don't want to pay. The fact that this comes into so few people's minds shows how successful companies are at casting off the idea of residuals.