I get that voice cloning is a wonderful technology for people who have lost their voice and want to use their own voice for expressing their own words. That is giving someone control over self-expression, and self-respect. But when voice cloning is used to copy someone else’s voice for expressing things they never said, that is about removing control and dignity and moving their power across to another actor.

When people use language models to express themselves they are not engaging in self-expression. They are using the copied voices of thousands of other human beings (living and dead) for generating thoughts those people never said, mimicking and averaging the individual quirks and wordplay of texts written in the very real joy, agony and consumed minds of those humans.

It’s Frankenstein expression.