Okay, I need to rant about something.

I am happy with the progress AI images have had. A lot of the issues have been hammered out, style mimicking has come so far, and new characters don't take too long to get added (NAI or local options). And chatbot AI, fine, don't care.

But what THE FUCK happened to all the AI audio development?!? We had multiple sites that had tons of characters. They were scuffed, but there was clear progress, then a bunch of them pussied out and pulled the copyright characters. I never heard anything about local methods to gen. And the best we had was 15.ai, the obsessed dev pulled it back after some stealing, then put it out again but MLP-only. Is there just no more interest in recreating characters saying whatever the hell we want? Where did it all go?