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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

Cheap AI voice clones may wipe out jobs of 5,000 Australian actors

Podcaster behind microphone
A voice actor at work. Companies may come to regret the lack of human connection if the voice reading an audiobook is AI-generated, Simon Kennedy says. Photograph: visualspace/Getty Images

Voice actors say they’re on the precipice of their work being replaced completely by artificial intelligence, with corporate and radio roles already beginning to be replaced by cheap generative AI clones.

While a high-profile actor like Scarlett Johansson can make the most prominent AI company in the world back down within a day from using her voice likeness in their AI products, everyday actors working on commercials, audiobook and video games worry they risk having their own voices cloned, or miss out on work entirely due to the rise of AI voice clones.

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