I feel like your likeness should be protected by default, is it not?

To be clear, not under copy protection but is there some other protection from impersonation such as fraud?

It's a GOOD THING AI companies RESPECT Trademarks and Copyrights!

If someone used my face and voice to make money without so much as asking me I'd be pissed off too.

In 2023, Scarlett Johansson’s attorney demanded that an AI app stop using her likeness in an advertisement. The actor also called out OpenAI in 2024 for using an “eerily similar” voice to hers for their GPT-4o chatbot despite having declined the company’s request to provide her voice. OpenAI subsequently announced it would no longer be using the voice, but did not indicate why.

In 2024, Tom Hanks called out the “multiple ads over the internet falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs.”

Look at this shit. This is illegal as fuck. Imagine being a doctor and some RFK-type podcaster uses your name, face and voice to promote some hack cure and destroys your reputation.

And they ASKED Johansson and she said no and they still did it. Fuckin AI motherfuckers. No shame

Seen somewhere around here

Her voice is not really unique in anyway nor are her looks. While she may not use this as a cudgel against anyone who looks like or sounds like her other artists will.

While I am not opposed to protections for all people, I am opposed to just the wealthy getting this privilege through trademark.

I don't blame her, they are going to be forced to do this to protect themselves from the AI maniacs, who think they have the right to AI everything, whether you like it or not.

The YouTube music world is being ferociously attacked from all angles by AI. One YouTuber has a unique voice and style, and had posted numerous videos. An AI company used her voice to train their AI voice, copyrighted it, and now they are sueing HER for infringement, and YouTube has taken down all her videos. They literally stole her voice.

AI is a bad enough threat, but the people managing this technology are about the most psychopathic people who have ever been in business.

So... now potential clones in the future never get a chance to be successful?

I read files as flies and it also made perfect sense to me.

Fuck all of these artists keeping ticketmaster alive.

Using copyright to prevent pirating, what a novel idea! I am shaking in my boots! No pirating for me!!

So now if someone posts photos or videos of TS on Instagram she can sue IG? Or what?

The global pop superstar on Friday filed trademark applications for two audio clips of her voice

So it only applies to those 2 audio clips?

This is terrible reporting.

I don't want to live in this universe anymore.

Let the billionaires fight eachother. And be all asshurt over it. People should start making AI Slop Taylor Swift songs and watch the Streisand effect follow.

Can't wait for corporations to find a way abuse the hell out of this.

So, we're gonna need exact data to make sure we don't accidentally duplicate any of that trademarked body. 😐😐😐

Too late I already patented it.

/j

Her real voice, or the auto-tuned one?

The most important question, did she also trademark her haemorrhoid?

@TaylorSwiftsHemorrhoid@lemmy.world

I think the problem is at the other end: the ads.

And platforms.

Some AI ad of Tom Hanks peddling a supplement, or a sexy ad of AI Taylor Swift, shouldn't be distributed en masse in the first place, just because an algorithm or ad engine picked it up as engagement bait. It's insane! There is nothing normal about it, and its about time we stop pretending the screwed up platforms profiting off this stuff are "free speech" and acceptable.

...Because scammers are always gonna scam. But they can only do this because the platforms are pourinf fuel on the fire.

Most people don't have unique enough voices for this to make sense

I never like trademarking sounds. Harley-Davidson tried to trademark their exhaust note once, as if anyone else wants to make engines as bad as theirs. But you shouldn't get to trademark "generic white chick voice."

Correct me if im wrong, but this may be a good idea. Between this and the OpenAI v ScarJo lawsuit a few years back, if Swift suceedes in trademarking herself, it may make it easier for others to do so as well.

I see the fallout being a ton of artists and celebrities following suit, eventually the barrier of legal paperwork/fees getting low enough that Youtube personalities and small time artists can also trademark themselves.

If enough people also went out of their way to legally protect their image, AI companies would be walking into a litigation minefield as they cant reasonably know how many people filed with the trademark offices. The easiest solution is to not let deepfake voices or images be too real, if they are they risk getting sued by some random actor.

It stinks that inorder to potentially set precisent to make AI less toxic, a billionair has to go to bat first, but I dont think im going to add this to my list of valid complaints about her.

What happens when a new singer shows up that has a similar voice? Or what about tribute bands or cover bands?