Back in the ancient times of the year of our lord 2020, people didn't seem nearly as freaked out as they are today.
![Screenshot of Wikipedia about the largely positive reaction to 15ai:
"15.ai has been met with largely positive reception. Liana Ruppert of Game Informer described 15.ai as "simplistically brilliant."[5] Lauren Morton of Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Natalia Clayton of PCGamer called it "fascinating,"[7][6] and José Villalobos of LaPS4 wrote that it "works as easy as it looks."[18][b] Users praised the ability to easily create audio of popular characters that sound believable to those unaware that the voices had been synthesized by artificial intelligence: Zack Zwiezen of Kotaku reported that "[his] girlfriend was convinced it was a new voice line from GLaDOS' voice actor, Ellen McLain,"[4] while Rionaldi Chandraseta of Towards Data Science wrote that, upon watching a YouTube video featuring popular character voices generated by 15.ai, "[his] first thought was the video creator used cameo.com to pay for new dialogues from the original voice actors" and stated that "the quality of voices..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:u5stolpomsfbkgqfopef6jio/bafkreidwsehdiyqfaw63gqywsfmeaonsy6v263oc3fsbdbkwdodnvb2evi@jpeg)
Fun fact, probably the first modern product to come out about voice cloning was an app called 15ai. Whose primary goal was to... Uhh... Clone the voices of the characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. For reasons. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai