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Not OP, But, Stephen Hawking could have kept his voice, as an example.There are probably lots of beneficial uses of this technology. Automatic TTS voice messages would be another 🤷♂️
the benefits for the average joe are few and in between. the negatives are hefty.
say goodbye to your jobs soon, people who dub movies. we can have the voice of the original actor say his lines in all languages... why stop there? who needs living actors in movies anyway? fake it all the way with a dead actors likeness. not to mention that it's getting harder to tell what's real anymore.. and conveniently, if some important shithead does an oopsie, they can claim it's an elaborate fake and not a public leak of their shitty behaviour.
it's good for modding games and other low budget media, i guess
Sure, those are good examples of negatives, but that is just the way of it. This happens all the time when new technology emerges. Just think about the audio industry, all of a sudden people could produce music from their spare bedrooms- jobs weren't needed anymore. But the music industry is now far more saturated than ever as a result, as it is so much more accessible to people, without the need for specialist equipment and stacks of cash.
This happens with literally every leap in technology. You realize we used to have people whose sole job was to connect phone calls? People whose job it was to light the street lamps? People whose job was to listen for ships/planes approaching?