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☆ Robin Williams' daughter says she finds AI recreations of her father's voice 'personally disturbing'
  + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Actress and director Zelda Williams said the use of AI recreations of her father's voice was "personally disturbing." These AI recreations are at best "a poor facsimile of greater people," she said. AdvertisementAdvertisementZelda Williams slammed AI recreations of her father's likeness, saying she finds these recreations "personally disturbing." In June, voice actor Brad Ziffer said he was avoiding gigs that would enable companies to create an AI-generated voice clone, for fear that it would threaten his future livelihood. Representatives for Zelda Williams did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.
Persons: Zelda Williams, —, Williams, Zelda, Robin Williams, James Dean, Jack, Tom Hanks, Brad Ziffer Organizations: Service, Poets Society, Screen Actors Guild
☆ A.I. human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook
  + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Trevor Laurence Jockims | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +14 min
"For many publishers, audiobook production can be a major investment," said Judy Chang, director of product management for Google Play Books. Even with AI voice, there is nominally a voice actor somewhere in the process. What voice actors sayFor some voice actors, the choice is being made to stay away. Kinsella noted that AI voice played a foundational role in the integration of AI into daily life at an earlier point. But he added, "I've yet to find a client who tells me they've chosen an AI voice over hiring me.
Persons: Ciccarell, Ciccarelli, David Ciccarelli, Alexa, Judy Chang, It's, it's, Bret Kinsella, Brad Ziffer, Michele Cobb, Cobb, Siri, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Kinsella, … Siri, ChatGPT, Ziffer, Andrea Collins, Collins, John Kubin, I've, Kubin Organizations: Google, Apple, Audio Publishers Association, Alexa Locations: U.S
☆ AI-generated narrators threaten voice actors hoping for audiobook gigs
  + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
AI is entering the publishing industry in the form of artificial human voices narrating audiobooks. Some voice actors are avoiding jobs that could lead to their voices being cloned by AI. Audiobooks could soon be narrated by artificial intelligence instead of voice actors as technological advancements make professionals across the industry question their futures. As the industry booms, voice actors are becoming more wary of AI's potential to be used to clone their voices, according to CNBC. Synthesized voice algorithms aren't there yet to be able to fully reproduce all the nuances of the human voice."
Persons: Jackson, Katherine Tangalakis, Brad Ziffer, David Ciccarelli, Ciccarelli, weren't, Ziffer Organizations: CNBC, Morning, Google, Apple
☆ Insurers Avoid Picking Up Businesses’ Covid-19 Pandemic Costs
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Richard Vanderford | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +6 min
“If they assumed incorrectly, the mom-and-pop restaurants shouldn’t be penalized.”Federal appeals courts so far have rejected cases like Consolidated Restaurant’s. In January, the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled against a range of businesses. With that decision, businesses had seen losses in 11 federal appeals courts, whose jurisdictions span nearly the entire country. Business interruption insurance policies are typically written to address harm to property: For instance, if a water-main break floods a sales floor, or a fire forces a business to close. In June, a Boston federal appeals court rejected a Covid insurance claim by a group of restaurants.
☆ Law firms that make billions fighting injuries and frauds are very hush-hush about what they pay. Here are the starting salaries at 19 firms from Altshuler to Wigdor.
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Many plaintiffs' firms pay somewhere in between. Despite more law firms increasingly paying their top earners like professional athletes, many law school grads only make between $50,000 and $80,000 a year. Things do appear to be changing as more plaintiffs firms seek to compete with Big Law firm talent. But firms like Edelson that pay as much as Big Law firms are the exception. For more information on how these law firms pay, see our table below:Do you have more information on how plaintiffs' firms pay their lawyers?
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