Jeff Geerling posted a video showing Elecrow's two whole YouTube series using Jeff's voice without Jeff's permission.
As TelepathicPug put it in Ex-Twitter, "You're like the Scarlett Johanson of ESP tutorials now." (link)
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Does the voice in the clip at the beginning of this video sound familiar to you? ... And I'm not even sure non-consensual voice cloning is against YouTube's Terms of Service.
You should hire a voiceover artist, or pay a content creator to work with you. A lot of brands actually do that! Just... don't steal my voice and use it to promote your product.
My thoughts
This is deeply personal to me. I watch almost all his videos and they help me a lot. Jeff Geerling publicly said he'd like to avoid lawyering up, and that he doesn't have a lot of funds. I've donated to his Patreon, and I suspect my donation amount won't cover 30 seconds of lawyer fees. Being a well-known creator isn't going get easier from here on out, only harder. @LinusTech is another creator I could see somebody cloning (hint - I posted some cloned audio of you, Linus, here in the forums to say "it's obvious, it's not real..." but... ouch, today AI became a personal issue for me)
Sources
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/they-stole-my-voice-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614490
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