Production studios and fans alike are turning to generative AI tools to make voice actors say things they never said — and their jobs are on the line.oice actor Allegra Clark was scrolling through TikTok when she came across a video featuring Beidou, a swashbuckling ship captain from the video gamewhom she’d voiced. But Beidou was participating in a sexually suggestive scene and said things that Clark had never recorded, even though the rugged voice sounded exactly like hers.
“It sucks that we have no personal ownership of our voices. All we can do is kind of wag our finger at the situation,” Clark toldin an email that its users need the “explicit consent” of the person whose voice they are cloning if the content created could be “damaging or libelous.” Months after Clark’s experience, the company launched a “voice captcha” tool that requires people to record a randomly generated word and that voice must match the voice they are trying to clone.
Those contracts were largely written and signed before the advent of AI systems. “Voice actors have not provided informed consent to the future use of an audio recording and haven't been fairly compensated for it,” said Scott Mortman, an attorney for NAVA. “And so protections need to be strengthened significantly in the wake of AI.”that allows employers to use an actor’s voice to create a “digital double,” or “synthesize” their voice through machine learning.
that anonymous 4Chan posters used ElevenLabs’ then free cloning tool to generate racist, transphobic and violent remarks with the voices of celebrities like Joe Rogan and Emma Watson.this year that criminals are using AI voice clones to impersonate loved ones as a way to convince their targets to send them money.