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The harassers posted similar audio clips on Twitter which included the home address and fake voices of at least three other actors. Zane has worked on Fallout 4 mods; Tom worked on Poppy Playtime. They also posted the address of another actor called Michael. The Twitter accounts created to share these peoples’ private information also retweeted another video using an AI-generated voice, this time in the style of Agent 47 from the Hitman games. “I basically just saw I was tagged in a post, and the immediate thing I noticed was my home address, so I was surprised to say the least,” Tom told Motherboard in an email. “Then I registered it had the racist rhetoric, framed as inflammatory as possible in such a way an internet troll might do. From what I gathered, it was bait from the get go, trying to get a rise out of voice actors who had publicly expressed concerns about AI.” Last week Motherboard reported on raising concerns inside the voice actor industry about clients asking actors to sign the rights to their voices away so more material could be generated with AI later.Do you know how else AI-generated voices are being abused? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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