Darren Hick: "Voice Synthesizers: A.I. and Stealing Style"

Darren Hick, Texas Tech University: "Voice Synthesizers: A.I. and Stealing Style"

Abstract
In this talk, I investigate one of the core complaints by artists about generative A.I.: that it is stealing their styles. After showing that the dominant family of philosophical theories about style—that style is essentially grounded in the artist's psychology—fails to align with our ordinary understanding of the term, or to explain artists' objection to style replication, I offer my own view of style as the formal result of a process of self-realization, as something that is truly of the artist, and not merely from the artist—a theory that I think does what the psychologist views do not.