Voice actors Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage discovered that AI company Lovo had used their voice recordings without proper consent to create voice clones that were being used commercially and in content about topics they never agreed to discuss.
In 2019 and 2020, voice actors Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage were contacted through Fiverr by anonymous individuals who paid them $1,200 and $400 respectively to record voice clips that were described as being for internal research and academic purposes only. However, in April 2022, Lehrman discovered a YouTube video about the Ukraine war narrated by a voice clone of himself. Later, while listening to a podcast about AI threats to the entertainment industry, the couple heard Lehrman's cloned voice being interviewed as a chatbot named Poe. Investigation revealed that Berkeley-based startup Lovo had used their voice recordings to create commercial voice synthesis technology. Lovo had featured Sage's cloned voice in investor pitch videos in 2020 and was promoting both actors' voice clones on its website. The company has raised over $7 million and claims over 2 million customers. After receiving a cease-and-desist letter, Lovo claimed to have removed the voice clones from its website, but the couple argues the underlying technology has already been distributed to customers and could still be used.
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