When radio people discover their AI clones

It sounds like a sinister game of whack-a-mole.

You have just started with a AI-generated clone of yourself, then another one shows up. And another one.

This happened with Jack Post (Main photo) by The Christian O’Connell Show To Melbourne Gold 104.3.

About a month ago, Jack discovered a sports betting platform, Instagram The account used his voice. His fake voice, to be exact.

“I did not speak this ad,” Jack said on air this week.

Then someone alerted Jack that a furniture company was using his voice for an instructional video.

Jack says he emailed the company and was told “We're sorry. We didn't know that. We're logged into this website where you can use any AI voice and yours is just the 'Australian' voice they offer you.”

Sure enough, upon closer inspection, Jack discovered a computer-generated voice that was so similar to his own that it was almost impossible to tell the difference.

After some thought, Jack says, “I think I know why I'm the perfect person to steal my voice from. It's because I spend so many hours speaking on podcasts, but my voice isn't so well-known that you'd steal it from a celebrity.”

“They wouldn’t go, Hamish and Andy, because it’s too obvious.”

Jack told his story on the show and Christian O’Connell And Patrina Jones “I don't know what to do now. Anyone can go to this site, sign up for free and use this voice.”

“That's the thing,” Patrina said. “It has so many implications for our industry, and that's why we have to take a stand.”

It must be a very unsettling feeling to know that there is another version of you out there, one that you seemingly have no control over.

Yet we hear on the radio, television and elsewhere that this is happening more and more often.

Earlier this year, TV news legend Sandra Sully expressed her dismay after hearing a voice identical to hers reading a headline on a true crime podcast.

Although the makers of the podcast explicitly state that Sandra's voice is an imitation, she did not consent to it.

Sandra said this serves as a warning: If she is considered a trusted voice in the news, how can that be manipulated? And to what end? Good, bad … or evil?

It's scary.

The Australian Voice Actor Association has already raised concerns about the increasing threat of “vote theft” in Australia as a result of artificial intelligence.

Last month, a Senate committee found that stronger government regulation was urgently needed.

Voice actors stated at the hearing that “harsh means” are being used to force voice actors to sign contracts that allow their voice to be converted into a digital clone that can be reused in the future.

AAVA President Simon Kennedy told the committee: “Productions lure us with the work we need to pay our rent, feed our families and prepare for retirement, and then try to force us to allow them to create our digital replacements.”

Further away, actor Stefanie Fry issued his own warning about artificial intelligence after discovering that his voice had been cloned and used to narrate a historical documentary.

Fry said Assets Magazine “I didn’t say a single word about it – it was a machine.”

Fry says his narrative of the seven volumes of Harry Potter Books were used to create an AI version of his voice.

“I have passed it on to my agents on both sides of the Atlanticand they freaked out – they had no idea that something like this was possible.”

Robin Williams' Daughter Zelda On social media, she sharply criticized the artificial cloning of her famous father, who died in 2014.

“These recreations are, at best, a poor recreation of great people, but at worst, a horrific Frankenstein monster cobbled together from the worst parts of this industry instead of what it should stand for.”

The question is: When will our industry draw the line? Or has the AI ​​horse already bolted?