I was scrolling on tiktok and came across a Bluey post, not unusual as I love Bluey, but this post specifically made my skin crawl. It was AI music using the voice of the young anonymous actress who voices Bluey.
The creators of Bluey have made a huge deal out of making aure that these kids stay anonymous because they understand how the industry can be so incredibly damaging to children. Their names aren't even public knowledge. These kids are not only kept anonymous so that they can live as normal lives as possible, but they are kept anonymous for safety reasons. I'm certain you've heard the horror stories of children being groomed and endangered because they become so popular so young. Ludo Studios is trying to keep these kids safe. Evidence below (source)
Hearing this kid's voice used without her consent, without her parents consent, even without her knowledge and endangering her like this is the most disturbing thing I've seen in a very long time.
The worst thing about this? Everyone in the comments was going on about how cute she sounded "singing the song" and that OP should "make a version with Bingo", who's actress is even younger than Bluey's voice actress. No one saw that there was something wrong with this. I am disgusted and horrifically disturbed.
"AI" isn't "Artificial Intelligence". There is nothing Intelligent about it. It is simply programs and computer mimicry that is marketed as "AI" as a selling point. It isn't truly learning from anything to be considered intelligent. It is taking what you put into it and mimicing that. It is wrong and a violation of someone's life 100% of the time.
If you are considering creating "AI music" or any form of "AI" content, please reconsider. You are causing so much more harm than you realise.
Kids these days and using their AI voices making people sing songs they’ve never sung before. Back in my day, we ripped audio clips from shows and pieced them into utaloid software to make anime characters sing Happy Synthesizer. Uphill! In the snow! Both ways!
alright i ranted about this in my friends’ server but i’m going to rant about it here because it’s important
STOP USING AI FOR THE MEMES. STOP SHITPOSTING WITH CHATGPT AND ALGORITHMIC IMAGE GENERATION. STOP SHITPOSTING WITH THE AIS THAT REPLICATE PEOPLE’S VOICES.
by using it, even for shitposts and goofing off, YOU’RE CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROBLEM. you’re giving it more samples to improve. you’re giving it attention. just fucking stop
this goes for hate-watching as well.
if you don’t want something to be a thing, don’t give it attention
There's been AI covers of songs going around for ages on tiktok (ones I'm referring to in this post are covers by 'Arthur Morgan' from Red Dead 2, however there are hundreds of others, be they characters from shows or actual musical artists) and they've never sat fuckin right with me.
With the strike going on, and cooperation's saying they're going to start using AI generated actors (their body scans AND voices), these tiktoks are like a genuine problem now.
Roger Clark, then man who voiced Arthur Morgan in the video game has spoken about it now, and noted how harmful it is, saying he "doesn't get a kick out of it at all" and that it is "Plagiarism Software". These AI 'Covers' ARE Plagiarism.
If you'd like the definition of the word, Oxford Dictionary states it's "Presenting work or ideas from another source as your own, with or without consent of the original author (Or in the case of AI "original creator" = original writer, actor, artist, etc)". That means ALL your AI art, ALL your AI writing, ALL those AI character chat bots you use ALL the AI song covers, ALL of them being GENERATED by an AI WITHOUT CONCENT FROM THE ORIGINAL CREATORS are Plagiarized Works.
Now, because so many people think they can just use AI and not have to worry about the consequences (because for some reason, they think there is none), here's what can happen if you're caught using Plagiarized works; This Scribblr article states what can happen if you use plagiarized works in a university, college or high school environment, which is becoming a problem with AI generated essays, etc. (It also Included a section on why it's so serious - a section easily transferred into AI generated Fanfiction). best case scenario is that you get an automatic zero score. Worst case, expulsion. Here in Australia, according this article by Criminal Defense Lawyers Australia, under our copywrite law, the penalty for plagiarism can be up to 5 years imprisonment, and/or a 600,000 AUD fine.
There's many, many other articles one could comb though, above is only two, and while neither of them directly mention AI works, the idea IS the same. AI works are copywrite. AI works are plagiarism. AI works are dishonest, and they are ruining the creative field in an extremely brutal and heartless way. There are people here who are being stolen from - not just in creative spaces like fandom or art - but their very jobs, their livelihoods (show writers, actors, musicians).
Those using AI are being unethical, and selfish, and I know they will be stubborn too. But if you use AI you are supporting it. If you're supporting it, then you are willingly sitting and watching people die, slowly. And I'm sorry (not really), but people who are like that don't deserve to keep their toys.
Can't Stop The Feeling is a rumored unreleased song by Michael Jackson. Said to have been intended for Number Ones and have been replaced by One More Chance, however this has never been confirmed.