Episode Details

Voice cloning now needs just five to ten seconds of reference audio, and the consent check on most platforms is a single checkbox. This episode traces how the industry's guardrails were built — not by protecting voice actors, but in response to 4chan trolls in 2023 — and follows the cases that reveal the real gaps: Greg Marston discovering his voice in an IBM text-to-speech product called Conor, Bev Standing hearing herself narrate every TikTok, the Lehrman and Sage lawsuit where copyright was thrown out because it covers recordings, not voices. Then there's the $150 Biden robocall, the $6 million FCC fine, and the jury acquittal that followed. The episode closes on what actually works: licensed marketplaces, union deals, live voice captchas, and a patchwork of state laws that leaves most people on their own. Episode 6179 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6179 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/000404)