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Hey all. Aaron is out today, perhaps putting in an offer on a Spanish country home. I'm here with the... [Product Hunt]( [Read in browser]( [This newsletter is brought to you by]( TOP MEWS Hey all. Aaron is out today, perhaps putting in an offer on a [Spanish]( country home. I'm here with the top news for you though. 🔥[Apple’s iPad ad is getting roasted online](. 💸Surprising everyone, [FTX said most customers will get their money back.]( 💰[Self-driving car maker Wayve raised over a billion dollars]( — one of the largest funding deals on record for a British startup. PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT [The first AI company to partner with SAG-AFTRA]( One of the biggest fears [I hear expressed]( about AI is what it will do to creative professionals. That was a core topic for SAG-AFTRA, an American labor union of actors and voice artists, when union members went on strike last year, bringing much of the filming in Holywood to a halt for months. What you might have missed was another deal that was struck in January, a couple months later — SAG-AFTRA signed a licensing deal with Replica Studios permitting voice performers to work with Replica and create digital replications of their voices. Fast forward to now, and today [Replica is officially launching its Voice AI product suite]( using that new licensing model meant to fairly compensate voice actors for their work. What does it mean? [Replica’s demo]( is pretty cool. Type a simple prompt, like “A giant talking tree in a magical forest” and you’ll get audio that sounds like Ludo from Labyrinth. And if you don’t get that reference, just imagine the top-notch voice acting you’d hear in a movie or RPG game. That new feature called Voice Lab lets makers custom design voices with accents and speaking styles. Instead of creating those voices with a ton of public content from YouTube, for example, Republic creates them with content created by its network of voice actors. According to co-founder [Shreyas Nivas](, “actor partners choose whether or not they wish to continue hosting their voice on Replica when their contract comes up for renewal - [Replica does] not 'buy out' voices with a one time payment as that would be terribly unfair to the actor…” But not everyone is happy (yet?) One customer chimed in on Product Hunt claiming that they lost their audio when a voice actor left the platform, affecting his project half way through. Nivas responded to the user [here](. An article from [the Verge]( back in January also notes that some actors were still unhappy to see SAG-AFTRA making deals with AI companies, but spokespeople for the union felt, in summary, that union members just needed more info to understand the deal. The partnership makes me, for one, optimistic about what I can tell people when they ask how we can prevent AI from destroying artist careers. According to the Republic team, Republic is “the first AI company to partner with SAG-AFTRA, and pioneer AI licensing models that create new revenue streams for actors and talent.” [See the demo]( Sponsored By Tired of explaining the same thing over and over again to your colleagues? It’s time to delegate that work to AI. guidde is a GPT-powered tool that helps you explain the most complex tasks in seconds with AI generated documentation. - Turn boring documentation into stunning visual guides - Save valuable time by creating video documentation 11x faster - Share or embed your guide anywhere for your team to see Simply click capture on our browser extension and the app will automatically generate step-by-step video guides complete with visuals, voiceover and call to actions. The best part? Our extension is 100% free. 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