On January 14, 2022, Troy Baker announced a partnership with blockchain -based company Voiceverse , which was immediately met with negative reception. The announcement was particularly controversial due to Baker’s confrontational tone, ending his tweet with “You can hate. Or you can create.” Later that day, it was discovered that Voiceverse had used voice technology from 15.ai —a free, non-commercial text-to-speech application—without permission or attribution. Screenshots of log files posted by 15 , the developer of 15.ai, revealed that Voiceverse had generated audio using 15.ai’s voices from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , pitched them up to make them unrecognizable, and then sold them as non-fungible tokens (NFT). News publications and AI watchdog groups universally characterized the incident as theft and plagiarism. Following the continued backlash and plagiarism revelation, Baker acknowledged on January 31, 2022, that his original announcement may have been “antagonistic” and announced that he would discontinue his partnership with Voiceverse. In 2023, /Film described Baker’s former partnership with Voiceverse as “one of [his] less reputable roles”.
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