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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why IS Peppa the Pig Embroiled in Controversy Over AI? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: I never thought I'd say this, but Pepa Pig has
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Speaker 2: found herself embroiled in a little controversy and it's all
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Speaker 2: over her voice.
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Speaker 3: And the kids behind it. The problem is the emergence
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Speaker 3: of AI, which can clone a voice actor pretty remarkably.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the toy company has Bro, who owns
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Speaker 4: Pepa Pig, is demanding that the child actors who voice
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Speaker 4: the show sign away their voices to AI forever.
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Speaker 3: And an AI Pepa voice already exists for the record,
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Speaker 3: but the demand to agree or quit didn't go over
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Speaker 3: well with unions or many moms and dads.
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Speaker 5: About a thousand actors, including agents' parents, sign an open
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Speaker 5: letter in protests which doesn't name Pepa directly in order
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Speaker 5: to protect the kids involved, but makes it very clear
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Speaker 5: it is that Pig and it.
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Speaker 4: Raises a very serious question. How do you handle AI
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Speaker 4: when it involves cloning kids who can't make the decision themselves.
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Speaker 6: I mean, there's so many questions coming with all of this, right,
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Speaker 6: That's exactly why legal experts say this particular case could
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Speaker 6: set the legal precedent we shall see.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood