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Well that sucks
Article headline is clickbait. If you read it it's actually a fairly positive way to implement it. They got permission from the family, compensated the family, and wanted to continue on the legacy of the actor who played Vector in the original.
I'll give you that it's probably the best way to do it, I still don't think it should be done. They can frame it as a way to "honor their work" and all, but at the end of the day, they're still using it for a commercial product and they have a distinct profit motive to have it sound like the original VA instead of hiring someone new.
This is literally an example of AI taking someone's job. Without the use of the AI model, they would either have to disuse the character and pay a writer to make that make narrative sense or pay someone else to do the voice.
I mean they hired a VA to give the lines still, they just used ai to make them sound more like the original VA.