Voice Actors’ AI Suit Confronts Federal Publicity-Rights Gap (1)

Aug. 14, 2024, 9:20 AM UTCUpdated: Aug. 14, 2024, 6:09 PM UTC

Paul Skye Lehrman remembers going “ghost white” upon hearing his voice in a YouTube video in April 2022, talking about the military equipment used in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Lehrman said he had never recorded himself saying those words. “It’s a synthetic version of my voice saying words I have never said in a place I’ve never agreed to be a part of.”

According to Lehrman, his voice was plucked from sound recordings he submitted to a user on the freelance marketplace Fiverr.com in 2020 that had been fed into an AI voiceover generator model created by a company called Lovo ...

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