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The terms of service is terrifying for anybody who has a voice or anything of value they want made into speech

> you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose

There’s a bunch more in there too

Most of the ai companies have these terms, and it’s pretty sketchy



> irrevocable, perpetual,

Are complete, absolute, non-fucking-starters.

The rest, I roughly understand legally to an extent for actually "doing a SaaS with your voice" as being necessary.

HOWEVER.

I should be able to say "Stop using my voice" and there should be a default license duration equal to your paid subscription. If I have to occasionally click "By clicking this I certify that I renew the license under the originally agreed terms with a new duration" or something, fine, so be it.


Woah, good catch. Yes, those are terms I'd never agree to.




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