This is the kind of consent that Ai bros want. None

Didn't something similar happen to the woman voicing Siri? She didn't know either that her voice was used on every iPhone. But I think in her case she knew at least that she had done a generic "virtual voice" gig.

I don't think this is particularly AI issue, more like corporate greed issue. Some company have fooled her to write contract that allows them to use her audio recordings to do this without her. This happens in many different industries.

That's not disturbing; that's completely fucked up.

If they want to buy data to use for AI, they can pay someone to license their voice for its use. What they've done is no different to bootlegging, but it's worse because it's personally identifiable data.

This is stealing her voice. It's just plain wrong.

What I really don't understand is, even if you think AI voice is okay, why not just make an original voice? Why you got to steal somebody's voice? Or if you don't want to do that, why not just get consent for the specific thing you're doing? Don't take advantage of the fact that she previously recorded her voice as an aid for the blind and steal her voice because of some small text in a contract. That's dishonest and pathetic.

You're the railway. Do you know how many people love and obsess over trains and railways? There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers. How did it come to this? How incompetent can you be?

They should have gone the other route and just had the woman from 2 point Museum/Campus so it, complete with sarcastic remarks.

"The train is delayed, but you know that already"

Pay the lady!