AI Firm Seeks to End Actors’ Voiceover Generator Class Action

A text-to-speech voiceover service sought to dismiss a class action from voice actors, arguing their complaint accusing it of training its AI model on recordings of their voices didn’t actually allege any wrongdoing or misstatements by the company.

Lovo Inc. said the accusations brought against it are “threadbare conclusory recitations of the elements of the claims and clearly insufficient,” according to a motion to dismiss filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The actors brought eight causes of action, including violating New York right of publicity protections and flouting the Lanham Act, and ...