From Rebecca Solnit's FB post:

.> This is the kind of thing I have in mind when I scratch out the parts of the speaking contracts I'm handed that demand rights in all technologies now existing and yet to be invented and infinite varieties of ownership of whatever I say and do and my appearance, etc. I don't want to be digitally digested into whatever's useful for some profiteer. I signed a contract this spring where I basically scratched out everything in it and then signed it and no one blinked, because the cannibals who write this shit are not the people who hand it to you. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-is-bringing-the-voice-of-the-dead-back-to-narrate-your-audiobook-7528cd96

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This is the kind of thing I have in mind when I scratch out the parts of the speaking contracts I'm handed that demand rights in all technologies now existing and yet to be invented and infinite...