Next Draft - Is Voice Over?
It's not a particularly good time to be a voice actor. Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage, a husband and wife who both make a living from their voice work, were thinking just that last summer as they listened to a podcast about the rise of AI and the damage it could do to careers like theirs. Then they realized something. "The podcast had an unexpected twist. To underline the threat from A.I., the host conducted a lengthy interview with a talking chatbot named Poe. It sounded just like Mr. Lehrman. 'He was interviewing my voice about the dangers of A.I. and the harms it might have on the entertainment industry,' Mr. Lehrman said. 'We pulled the car over and sat there in absolute disbelief, trying to figure out what just happened and what we should do.'" NYT (Gift Article): What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? "Two voice actors say an A.I. company created clones of their voices without their permission. Now they’re suing." The company that deployed the voiceover is telling the plaintiffs to talk to the hand. And I wouldn't be surprised if we find out it's Mr. Lehrman's hand. 2Tools of the Trade"In November 2019, the sheriff’s department in Stanislaus County, California sold 19 Glock pistols used by deputies. They went to LC Action, a gun dealer in San Jose repeatedly cited by federal inspectors for violations of federal gun laws. Over the next 2 years, one of those guns ended up at a crime scene more than 2,000 miles away. Indianapolis police recovered the gun and linked it to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old at this apartment complex. That’s not rare. It’s one of at least 52,529 guns once owned by police, but later used in crimes." CBS News Investigations: Police departments sell their used guns. Thousands end up at crime scenes. What comes around goes around... 3Tripping On Your Way Out of Pain"For Court Wing, a former martial artist and CrossFit trainer, the most surprising thing about participating in a 2020 clinical trial at NYU for psilocybin and major depressive disorder wasn’t that his depression — which had resisted treatment for over five years — disappeared. It was that his long-standing chronic pain, something unrelated to the trial’s focus, also disappeared. 'Shockingly, I was in complete remission.' And if you start poking around the internet or psychedelic conferences, a whole subterranean trove of similar stories opens up. An estimated 51 million Americans suffer from chronic pain — excruciating conditions like migraines, phantom limb pains, or fibromyalgia — and often go without effective treatments." Psychedelics could treat some of the worst chronic pain in the world. 4I Want Your Body"There are some questions humans may never truly answer — like, what happens to us after we die? But for my grandparents, the question of what would happen to their bodies was easy: They would be donated to science, specifically to the University of California, Los Angeles, which wasn’t far from their home. They weren’t sentimental, and liked the idea they could be helpful to someone else. Then, in 2004, scandal engulfed the body donor program at UCLA. Its director was accused of illegally stealing and selling body parts, and later pleaded guilty." (And, oddly, this is not an isolated case.) WBUR with an update from the parts department: 5 things to know before donating your body to science. 5Extra, ExtraA Spray Area: "Walgreens on Wednesday said it will offer its own cheaper version of the over-the-counter opioid overdose reversal spray naloxone. The drug is available online and will be in all stores at the end of the month." Why is news about a store-branded naloxone clone top news in NextDraft? Because the problem it addresses is massive. US drug overdose deaths decreased in 2023 for the first time in five years. But the numbers are still shocking. 6Bottom of the News"Another theory that led to much online debate is the Cube Rule, which categorizes food based on the location of the starch. Using the Cube Rule, a burrito is a calzone, or a dish fully enclosed in starch, and a taco is just that — a taco, or a product with starch on the bottom and two opposing sides. A hot dog is also considered a taco under the Cube Rule." Don't get that? Well, you need to understand that and much more if you want to be qualified to answer one of the key questions of our time. WaPo (Gift Article): Are tacos and burritos sandwiches? A judge in Indiana ruled yes. |
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