more dystopian. yet another "contribution" of AI for destroying the society via misinformation.

Speaking generally, there's an undermarketed positive privacy aspect to such voice changers, in helping with both protecting a user's identity against data scraping and doxxing. Additionally, like one other comment touched on, some people have strong accents that make communication in videos challenging (and can be a turn off for audiences and prejudice initial impressions).

Though by using an online service approach it means providing one's real voice to a service that may be using it for further training. Users have to make the call whether they feel they're good stewards.

My accent seems to translate very well through the app, tho. The tool "only" changes color, pitch, tone, etc. not _how_ I say stuff, i.e. pronounciation, choice of words, ...

All technology can be used for good and evil

If humanity can figure out how to make machines think, may we should also figure out how to stop doing evil to each other

Yes, but we can't stop it.

We've become slaves to the technology and are doomed to watch helplessly at it destroys us?

Not quite. We've become slaves to the technology, and we can opt to have some fun as the inevitable is happening.

On a personal level, I don't think one can do much against the zeitgeist. But they can decide what part they play in it.

Long time ago. Since the discovery of electricity, basically.

It's a pity to think that after everything we've achieved we still haven't mastered self control.

Since the invention of the pointy stick already.