'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them.'

  • 2024-10-09 08:00:00
  • BBC News

Nowadays, more and more people are fighting to make sure that their voices are heard, to ensure that no great power decides to silence the words of others; however, the current narrative seems to be taking a different path, albeit one that is equally worrying.

Following the advent of artificial intelligence, billions of arts professionals have devoted their time to fighting the misuse of this technology, seen as the perfect substitute for human labour. The strikes that took place in Hollywood in 2023 cemented their position perfectly, underlining their complete rejection of the possible use of their performances as training material for AI services.

Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage, two voice actors involved in the affair, discovered the theft of their voices from a podcast devoted precisely to the issue mentioned - they subsequently filed a complaint against the Lovo platform, guilty of the theft.