A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.
A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.
Currently it’s an opt-in tool, and I don’t think it is likely OpenAI or Spotify blatantly steal voices. The fact that the tech exists enables that though, a podcast is a perfect training tool for it. But you can’t really uncreate it.
It’s also the sort of thing that unions have been fighting. It improves the technology and makes it an easier sell for any studios or producers to use it elsewhere, like to replace the need to pay a celebrity to come in and record radio station call outs, and long term this specifically takes away jobs from people who translate and dub audio.
IMO it’s good it’s opt-in but ultimately anti-human.
100% chance they already stole voices and sold them to either data harvesting or to sell and train ai models and never passed that money along.
Im sure OpenAI has downloaded a ton of podcasts for training, but more specifically when I talk about stealing I am mostly talking about using their voices for other unauthorized work, like suddenly they are announcing train stops.