Amazon is accused of using artificial intelligence to replicate actors’ voices

Amazon is accused of using artificial intelligence to replicate actors’ voices

A lawsuit filed against Amazon alleges that the company, using artificial intelligence, recreated the actors’ voices without permission for use in the remake of the film. Street house, therefore, violating copyright. The person suing the company is the author of the original version, from 1989. The information comes from Dedicate onself.

The accusation filed by screenwriter Lance Hill claims that Amazon and MGM Studios used artificial intelligence to clone the voices of actors in the new production. The tactic was adopted to finish the film before the copyright expired.

The original screenplay was owned by Amazon Studios until November 2023. Due to a petition Hill sent to the United States Copyright Office in 2021, seeking to regain the rights to what he wrote, which was used as the basis for the remake, the script authority I would reply to him after the given deadline.

The lawsuit alleges that Amazon Studios nevertheless rushed the project to finish it before the copyright expired. Since the Hollywood actors’ strike disrupted the company’s plans, it resorted to “replicating the voices” of the film’s actors using artificial intelligence.

Another studio would own the original script

One of the demands of the trial is to block the film’s release. The release of the film is scheduled for March 8th, at SXSW, and will arrive on the 21st of the same month in the Prime Video catalogs.

Amazon’s position on the case is to deny the allegations in the case. A spokesperson for the company guarantees that the makers of the film were instructed not to use artificial intelligence and that the accusations are false, as well as stressing that the company believes that its copyright on the original film has not yet expired.

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