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No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying the resources invested in helping people will be dwarfed by those invested in crap designed to exploit them economically or criminally.



Set asides the fact that you have absolutely no proof of that claim, the criminal world is tiny compared to the people who benefit from TTS (God forbid if that isn’t the case). Encryption, as an example, is hugely beneficial to the regular people despite being used or exploited extensively in the shady and questionable activities.


Completely different technology. Encryption doesn't directly replace human labor. And nobody is complaining about the existence of TTS per se, but rather pointing out that lots of resources are being poured into replacing human expressive performance skills with machinery. There's a strike on in Hollywood right now because studio owners want to strongarm performers into contractual arrangements that give away resynthesis rights of their appearance and performance in perpetuity.

None of the objections voiced to my original comment have even attempted to engage with this economic industrial reality.




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