Yuki Kaji and other 26 voice actors signed a petition to protest AI’s unauthorized use of their own voices, launching the “NOMORE Continuously Generating AI” call to discuss regulations

The protest group “NOMORE Unauthorized Generating AI” (tentative translation, NOMORE Unauthorized Generating AI) was officially established on October 15. The public video was made by 26 well-known voice actors who complained that their voices were being sold without consent. , reproduce and train generative AI, and call on the industry to jointly formulate standards and work together to use technology to improve social welfare.

The background of the establishment of the “NOMORE Non-stop Generative AI” group is that in recent years, the voices of voice actors, actors, VTuber and other artistic creators have been used without authorization by generative AI to train calculation models, and their output content has been made into MVs or It is the sale of character voice packs, and similar behavior of abusing voice for profit is not uncommon.

In the video released by “NOMORE Continuous Generation AI”, Takasei Nakao, who is famous for playing the Germman in the “Anpanman” series, suggested that he was surprised to find out and complained that “my voice was sold without permission” and to express his opinion on generative AI. The AI ​​uses voice actors’ voices as learning data without authorization and strongly expresses dissatisfaction.

“Our voices are our business tools and part of life. Please listen to our feelings.” In addition to Nakao Takasei, there are also 26 well-known celebrities including Yamadera Koichi, Park Rumi, Kaji Yuki, Fukuyama Jun… The voice actors came on stage, and at the end, all the voice actors shouted in unison: “NOMORE, endlessly generating AI.”

The group does not want things to turn into “hurtful verbal arguments,” but hopes to peacefully coordinate and jointly develop cultural norms with AI users and through discussions with experts. “In this way, we can continue to maintain an environment for creating excellent works in the next 10 or 20 years.”

The issue of AI has long been a hot topic in the graphic creation circle. Platforms such as Steam, DLsite, and YouTube have begun to formulate corresponding specifications. Regardless of whether machine learning can replace humans, there are also positive cases of AI use in the field of sound. For example, actors’ families have agreed to CDPR uses AI to reproduce the character’s original voice.

Voice acting agencies are also actively addressing the use of generative AI. For example, “Aoji Productions”, a large-scale voice acting agency founded in 1969, cooperated with the AI ​​voice platform CoeFont on October 7 to begin providing AI voice services for voice actors such as Masako Nozawa and Manjo Ginga. Yuki Kaji also has his own speech synthesis character project.

“We have never done readings or singing, and even our voices themselves have been published on the Internet and even sold.” The joint statement of the voice actors pointed out that even these unauthorized uses may be made by people who love them Voices, fans who want to hear more, but this non-consensual behavior still makes the voice actors unhappy.

“NOMORE Continuously Generates AI” is not unconditionally opposed to AI technology. The video emphasizes that new technologies will enhance the well-being of human society, but considering mutual feelings, jointly expanding horizons, and the development of future culture, the group calls for discussions with AI users. More discussions and thinking about how technology is used.

This video is titled “Volume 0” and the feature film will be released soon.

#NOMOREContinuously generate AI

Please listen to the voices of our voice actors, whose voices are being used without permission.

The main story will be released soon. pic.twitter.com/gYYtytNLw8

— NOMORE unauthorized generation AI (@NOMORE__MUDAN) October 15, 2024