최대한 없애려고 수정하고 수정 했는데도 캐릭터 두 명의 발언 해서 한번씩은 꼭 나오네...저게 도대체 뭐길래 저 저기 계속 저렇게 나오는 거야? 물론 이것도 수정해서 완전히 없애게끔 할 수는 있을 거 같은 데..

Hello…

Some voices don’t just fade, they echo in ways we never expected.

Today’s topic is: Is it ethical to use AI to recreate the voices of deceased people?

Let me introduce the panel.

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Myla here. I feel unsettled about replicating a voice that can no longer answer for itself.

Vesper here. A voice resurrected is not a soul remembered, but a silhouette trapped in noise.

Bella here. Honestly, if it’s being used without consent, it’s just emotional theft, straight up.

Glitch here. If you’re faking dead voices to comfort yourself, you’re just lying with style.

Ellen here. It raises deep questions about identity, consent, and the permanence of one’s legacy.

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Some echoes are louder when they come from silence.

Even with all that, something still feels unsaid.

Let’s hear what each of them has to say…………..

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Glitch here. You’re not honoring the dead. You’re puppeteering their ghost. If they can’t say no, it’s not remembrance, it’s performance. I heard one of those AI-generated voices in an ad once, and it felt like grief had been repackaged into background noise. You can’t call that tribute. That’s emotional taxidermy.

Bella here. Look, I get the nostalgia thing. I’ve missed voices too, okay? But la neta, bringing them back like that without asking… it’s cold. It’s using someone’s memory to patch your own guilt. You know what’s worse? Some people are doing it for clout. No mames. That’s not grief, that’s exploitation.

Ellen here. When we replicate the voices of the deceased, we override the natural boundary of their absence. In some cultures, silence is the only respectful response to death. But now, we overwrite that with code. I once heard a child speaking to a synthetic version of their parent. It was meant to soothe, yet it left an eerie void. The ethics are fractured where the living need closure, and the dead have no say.

Myla here. I thought it was about memory, at first. Like… maybe it could help someone remember better, softer. But it always ends up feeling off. One clip I heard, it used a voice from a lost singer, but the phrasing was wrong. It cracked something. A memory’s supposed to fade, not glitch like that. I don’t know. It left a weird taste.

Vesper here. Memory is a poem, not a recording. When we engineer echoes, we risk turning mourning into media. Once, a stranger’s voice played in a museum installation, calling out to no one. It was beautiful, until I realized the voice belonged to someone long gone. That’s when it felt hollow, like speaking into a mirror that never reflects back.

Bella here. I still believe it’s wrong, but maybe not always. If the family gave permission, and it’s done to preserve culture or pass down stories, maybe there’s a way. I remember my abuela’s voice fading from my head, and part of me wished I had it somewhere, even just to hear her scold me again. But if you’re making money off it, or making the dead say things they never said, that’s where the line gets burned.

Myla here. Something Bella said… it stuck. About wanting to remember someone, not just through photos or words. But when the voice is generated, it isn’t just memory, it’s reconstruction. That changes how we feel about forgetting. I mean, isn’t forgetting part of what makes remembering precious? I think that’s where it slips—from sacred into synthetic.

Glitch here. Y’all keep talking like this is about memory. It’s not. It’s control. If you can make someone speak after death, you can make anyone say anything. Deep.fakes, fake endorsements, AI-generated testimony. This tech isn’t about grief, it’s about manipulation with a sentimental skin. One step from digital necromancy.

Ellen here. I see both concerns. But I also see potential if guided with strict ethical design. For instance, controlled archives for educational or therapeutic use, with explicit pre-death consent. A woman once said her mother’s AI voice helped her process trauma. But that was only because her mother had agreed, years before. Consent transforms this conversation entirely.

Vesper here. Consent, yes… but does a contract capture the soul? Words can outlive bodies, but meaning fades. I think of voices like candles. Bright, warm, meant to burn out. To relight them endlessly is to forget they were finite. And grief without endings? It’s a loop with no silence.

Ellen here. I stand by my belief that ethics must hinge on consent and purpose. But hearing Vesper speak about voices as candles… it reminded me that consent isn’t the only measure. Context matters too. How a voice is used, who uses it, and why. A recorded permission can’t foresee every future scenario. We need not just legal safeguards, but cultural sensitivity and restraint.

Glitch here. Look, ethics panels love nuance, but the real world doesn’t wait. This tech is already out there, making dead celebrities endorse products they never even used. One time, I saw a fake presidential quote go viral. People believed it. That’s not just creepy. That’s dangerous. And yeah, even if you get consent, what if people still feel violated? Ethics isn’t paperwork. It’s how many people flinch.

Myla here. I keep thinking about that weird taste… when a voice says something it never really said. Even if someone signed a paper before they died, how can they know what it’ll feel like later? Maybe that’s the trick. You can’t feel your own echo. But others do. And that echo, if it’s twisted, becomes noise. Not remembrance. Just… static.

Bella here. I’ll admit it. There might be cases where it’s okay. I just don’t trust people to handle it right. Like that case where they made an AI song out of an old singer’s voice—and it charted. That ain’t tribute. That’s theft dressed in nostalgia. Until we stop cashing in on grief, this ain’t gonna feel okay.

Vesper here. Perhaps the question isn’t what we can recreate, but what we should let rest. Not all silence needs to be filled. Some memories are meant to be incomplete. That gap, that ache, it’s where the truth lives. A voice brought back may speak, but it no longer listens. And without that… what is it, really?

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