Hasbro's TV Contracts Ask Child Voice Actors to Sign Rights Away for AI Use

MisterTea

What is the future for the voice actors then? Once the AI is trained they don't need to hire the kid for further recording sessions so they can cut them loose, use the AI and pay whatever royalties. At some point they wont even need people and you can just ask for "British Cockney spoken by an 8 year old female with a slight Chinese accent" then fine tune the results and paste in the dialogue.

kazinator

That's like a contract for milk delivery where the customer adds a clause that all the cows are belong to them.

tanseydavid

I wonder how John Fogerty feels about this? He was sued (unsuccessfully) for sounding too much like himself.