AI Stole Your Voice? Speak Up
AI Stole Your Voice? Speak Up Last summer, as they drove to a doctor's appointment near their home in New York City, Paul Skye Lehrman , and Linnea Sage listened to a podcast about the rise of AI and the threat it posed to the livelihoods of writers, actors, and other entertainment professionals . The topic was particularly important to the young married couple. They made their living as voice actors and AI technologies were beginning to generate voices that sounded like the real thing. But the podcast had an unexpected twist. To underline the threat from AI, the host conducted a lengthy interview with a talking chatbot named Poe. It sounded just like Lehrman. "We pulled the car over and sat there in absolute disbelief, trying to figure out what just happened and what we should do," Lehrman said. Lehrman and Sage are now suing the company that created the bot's voice. They claim that Lovo, a startup in Berkeley , California, illegally used recordings of