Thanks to generative AI, say goodbye to voice acting as we know it
Despite SAG-AFTRA's historic contract, voice actors feel their allowances for generative artificial intelligence pose a special threat to them.
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![Mexican male voice actor Armando Guerrero speaks during a dubbing session for a television series, inside the recording studio in Mexico City on May 19, 2023. Commercial voiceover artists, voice actors, and audiobook and videogame narrators fear that their talent will be displaced by synthetic voices and that they will lose their livelihood. Worse, they may be unknowingly feeding a device that will take away control of their voices. A man speaks into a microphone while watching the screen in front of him.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7058578.1702525195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/mexican-male-voice-actor-armando-guerrero.jpg)
Despite SAG-AFTRA's historic contract, voice actors feel their allowances for generative artificial intelligence pose a special threat to them.