Every single company making LLMs and image models is doing it. The video model and audio model people aren't because the RIAA and Hollywood are much more viciously litigious than publishers and artists and it's why we still don't really have a good open source video or audio AI setup available.
Most people who do voices programmed their own models, one of the most 'famous' ones being "Glorb", a rapper from Australia who makes drill music using the voices of Spongebob's cast
On the other hand, Meta and other US AI companies have been sued for using copyrighted training data; see for example this: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67569326/kadrey-v-meta-platforms-inc/?page=3
Every single company making LLMs and image models is doing it. The video model and audio model people aren't because the RIAA and Hollywood are much more viciously litigious than publishers and artists and it's why we still don't really have a good open source video or audio AI setup available.
Most people who do voices programmed their own models, one of the most 'famous' ones being "Glorb", a rapper from Australia who makes drill music using the voices of Spongebob's cast
Holy shit. You're telling me there's an AI model of THE Glorb?
https://www.youtube.com/@glorbworldwide