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I'm pretty sure they'd be a lot more people ready to do that job if there was a good remuneration. Heck that sounds a lot more fun that a LOT of jobs out there!
Sure but that's not how free markets work. If there's only 3 million consumers you can't afford 3 million voice actors but you can afford 3 million AI renders.
I'm not an economist but... 1 voice actor can serve 3 million consumers if they listen to the same content.
Anyway that's not even my point, my point is that it is possible to cover, we as a society, driven both by VC with strategies of capturing markets (so precisely going against "free" market as an ideal) and consumers are making choices (like when one buys from the local farmer market vs Amazon deliveries). If though we, while fully understanding the consequence of such choice (namely how the sausage is made, here how AI models are trained and then run), believe it's not valuable then sure, we can make that choice.
I'm just warning consumers then that if they don't pay for quality content made a certain way, they can't complain that they in turn don't get the job they wanted because nobody out there is ready to pay for it.
2 sides of the same coin.