Tech advances that make it easier to recreate human voices also raise ethical questions about the rights of actors and musicians
hen the epic open-world PlayStation 4 game Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed in 2013, it took 2,200 days to record the 1,200 voices in the game with 700 voice actors, who recited the 500,000 lines of dialogue.
“We would hope that there’d be hundreds, if not thousands of other studios that could dream of building games like [Red Dead Redemption 2] because everyone wants to do that,” Shreyas Nivas, the chief executive of Replica Studios, says. Nivas says he sees AI voice synthesising as the future, but, as with many AI advances, the practice is fraught with ethical dilemmas.
Nivas says the licensing model Replica has pursued allows actors to keep earning from the use of their voice even when they’re not in a studio recording.
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