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26 anime voice actors and actresses form group to speak out against unauthorized generative AI

Please listen to how it makes us, as voice actors, feel when our voices are used without permission for generative AI,” says Nakao, followed by the 26 members of the project shouting in unison “No more unauthorized Generative AI!”
This week,Koichi Yamadera (the voice of Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel), Romi Park (Fullmetal Alchemist’s Edward Elric), Ryusei Nakao (Dragon Ball’s Frieza), and 23 other prominent anime voice actors and actresses announced a new project they’re collaborating on.
The members plan to release individual videos expressing their personal feelings on the unauthorized use of voices for generative AI as well.
No More Unauthorized Generative AI’s statement comes less than a month after Aoni Production, one of Japan’s highest-profile talent agencies for anime voice actors and actresses, said it will be entering into a partnership with AI company CoeFont to create AI versions of the voices of a number of its performers, including the voice of Dragon Ball’s Goku, Masako Nozawa, for applications in “non-acting” projects.

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