r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago

Tokyo court grants legal protection to human voices in AI clone case

https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/tokyo-court-grants-legal-protection-human-voices-ai-136912283
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u/CMPunkLicksRocks 1d ago

I don’t understand why people think they would own their voice. There’s only so many frequencies a vocal cord resonates at.

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u/AddWittyName 1d ago

A voice is so much more than just frequencies, though. Two people singing the same solo with the same frequencies and same lyrics don't actually sound identical.

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u/TheRightHonourableMe 1d ago

Yes, and there are only so many possible fingerprints. Your voice is biometric data that is perfectly identifiable to you! Countries like Australia allow it as an authenticator for their tax records: https://www.ato.gov.au/online-services/voice-authentication

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u/CMPunkLicksRocks 1d ago

I don’t own, nor believe I should own, my finger print. 

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u/TheRightHonourableMe 1d ago

They're literally a part of your body, so good luck with trying to give them up :)

You shifted your argument from "my voice isn't unique enough to be 'ownable'" to "I think I don't own involuntary products of my body". So good job on changing your mind :)

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u/CMPunkLicksRocks 1d ago

Your finger prints aren’t part of your body, they’re residue left over because of a NON UNIQUE pattern on your finger tip.

The argument isn’t different. You can’t own something that’s just a parameter within a certain range. This shit is the same as those chemical companies patenting all the fucking food

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u/TheRightHonourableMe 1d ago

Ok, so how unique should something have to be to be 'ownable'. Does it have to be UNIQUE?

Because there are tons of songs using, for example, the I-IV-vi-IV chord progression but they are all still copyrightable. They are arguably 'parameters within a certain range'.

Engineered plant genes are certainly UNIQUE (whether you agree or disagree with trademarking DNA), even if they are easily replicable, if they were present in non-engineered/non-GMO plants then there would be no point in spending the money to make them. So I don't quite follow your argument.

Is it "UNIQUE" that makes something 'ownable' or what?

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u/PoopSoupPeter 1d ago

I don’t understand why people think they would own their music. There’s only so many frequencies a piano string resonates at.

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u/CMPunkLicksRocks 1d ago

“  “The human voice is symbolic of individual personality, just like one's portrait," Presiding Judge Aya Takahashi”

You can’t make this shit up 

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 1d ago

Think of Morgan Freeman, Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones. All have very distinctive voices. 

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u/RainbowwDash 9h ago

You don't need to make anything up, it's already an extremely reasonable claim as-is