Sometimes all you want is the effect, other times it's important that you're accurately representing effort or accounting for other human considerations.
Society is about compromises and balancing different needs against each other. Sometimes we go one way, other times we go the other way, there is no one principle that always solve any situation.
the current lobbying and legislating efforts seek to outlaw pens and pencils produced by anyone but a handful of US corporation, who only let you use their pens and pencils if you let them look over your shoulder while you write your squiggles.
So I’m increasingly of the opinion that it’s not the tool that needs to be regulated, but the use of the output.
Clone voices? Fine. Clone voices for deceptive or commercial purposes without the person’s consent? Not fine.
But then how do you prove it, what is deceptive, what is non-consenting voice cloning, yadda yadda.
I imagine we will shortly see a raft of YouTubers adding “do not clone my voice” notices to their channels like the Facebook “by posting this notice you remove all rights for Facebook to steal the copyright in your photos” spam posts that were doing the rounds at one point.
A lawsuit from a private individual or business entity is very different from the federal, state, or municipal government attempting to silence you, the latter is prohibited by the First Amendment.
I find it appalling that this needs to be spelled out.
