When AI Steals Your Voice: The Legal Battle Begins

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP -

Imagine hearing your own voice discussing AI threats, but you never said a word.

Voice actors Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage were shocked when they heard AI-generated clones of their voices without consent. Driving home the reality of AI’s potential harm, the couple is now suing Lovo, a startup that allegedly used their voices to train its voice synthesis technology.

Lehrman and Sage claim they were misled about how their voice recordings would be used, and discovered their cloned voices in unexpected places, including a YouTube video about the Ukraine war and an investor pitch video.

This lawsuit underscores a growing issue: Who owns your voice in the age of AI? How can creators protect their work from being exploited?

Read the full article on New York Times.

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