Voice actors are increasingly being asked to sign rights to their voices away so clients can use artificial intelligence to generate synthetic versions that could eventually replace them, and sometimes without additional compensation, according to advocacy organizations and actors who spoke to Motherboard. Those contractual obligations are just one of the many concerns actors have about the rise of voice-generating artificial intelligence, which they say threaten to push entire segments of the industry out of work.

Cox, J. (2023, February 7). ‘Disrespectful to the craft:’ Actors say they’re being asked to sign away their voice to AI. Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence