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People have rights to their image and likeness. Get with the law and industry kid. This is akin to photoshopping a person into scenes they didn't authorise with the intent to profit from it.

What law would that break?

The specific laws depend on the jurisdiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

Specifically, here, the issue would be "appropriation".

Probably the right of publicity:

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/right-of-publicity/

I’m guessing you’re not an actor?

If people want voice actors to 'get with the times' in this regard, they need to find a good way to convince them. And if 'get with the times' means 'let someone make money off your main skill that you spent years/decades developing without compensating you' it's an especially hard sell.

Instead people are just going "i'm gonna do this! try and stop me!" and expecting a good response from laymen who don't necessarily understand technology or the law.

This is how you end up with copyright/IP maximalism because it just looks and feels bad to people who don't understand the fine details.

I understand the fine details and it looks terrible. What it looks like, from top to bottom, is that GenAI researchers and developers are engaged in mass theft and free-riding of everyone else's work.