Voiceverse NFT company used AI-generated voice content from the free 15.ai text-to-speech service without proper attribution in their marketing materials, violating the service's terms of use.
Voiceverse NFT, a company partnered with voice actor Troy Baker to sell voices as NFTs, used AI-generated voice content from the free 15.ai text-to-speech service in their marketing animation without providing proper credit or acknowledgment. The 15.ai service creates AI replicas of character voices including GLaDOS from Portal, David Tennant's Doctor from Doctor Who, and My Little Pony characters, and is completely free to use with the only requirements being that users credit and link back to 15.ai and not mix it with other text-to-speech software. Voiceverse's animation allegedly used the Rainbow Dash voice from My Little Pony but pitched it up to sound different. When the creator of 15.ai accused Voiceverse of using their software without acknowledgment on January 14, 2022, Voiceverse deleted the animation from their Twitter and publicly apologized, stating their marketing team used the voice without giving proper credit and that the Chubbiverse team had no knowledge of this. The 15.ai creator expressed feeling extremely depressed, not only because their work was stolen and used for profit, but also because the scandal led to the entire field of vocal synthesis being misrepresented by what they called 'charlatans who are only in it for the money.'
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