NSFW Mods Duplicate Voices with AI Deep Fakes, Voice Actors Outraged: This is Unacceptable

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NSFW Mods Duplicate Voices with AI Deep Fakes, Voice Actors Outraged: This is Unacceptable

Update: We spoke with Robbie92_, the creator of this list and a member of the Skyrim modding community. His answers are as follows.

Porn mods posted on the NexusMods site in droves have sparked outrage in the voice acting community, and as Gamesradar reported, Twitter user Robbie92_ earlier this week, Skyrim whose voice was used against his will for a NSFW mod He posted a list of voice actors.

These actors include several characters from Skyrim, as well as April Stewart, who voices Petra Venj in Destiny 2 and Jessamine Kaldwin in Dishonoured 2, Dragon Age Origins Jon Curry, the voice of Zevran, and Susan Eisenberg include: Susan Eisenberg has been the voice of Wonder Woman since 2001, both in animation and video games.

The National Voice Actors Association tweeted in response: "The damage AI and synthetic voices do to voice actors and game companies is real and tangible: "Voice actors don't have the legal ability to fight this, but you can help.

The wider voice acting community has also rallied to condemn the modifications. Lindsay Rousseau of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Deathloop, and Fallout 76 tweeted: "Voice actors do not agree. If you are using these mods, you are stealing and abusing our work."

Jennifer Hale, who voices Commander Shepard in the "Mass Effect" series, also tweeted: "If you do not have written permission to use my voice, including AI use, you do not have permission to use my voice.

Meanwhile, Abby Weffer, who voices numerous characters in "The Elder Scrolls Online" and "Phantom of the Phantom," said, "I do not and will not consent to my voice being used for AI synthesis, cloning or deep faking. This is unacceptable."

Robbie92_ has also done considerable work through google docs to gather a list of mods who are "using AI clones to produce pornographic content without consent" for the purpose of spreading awareness and reporting, and April Stewart I appreciate the exhaustive work." Google docs was especially helpful when I contacted the agent and requested that the content be removed."

"I have been able to find the content on the web site and have been able to find the content on the web site.

I contacted Robbie92_, known as _Robbie_ in the wider modding community. 'When the community let me down, I became invested. We had the opportunity to govern ourselves and do the right thing, and we failed. Instead, the community cheered it on for their own enjoyment.

"My only goal was to let a few specific people know. I never expected the entire VO community to take up that tweet. It's very humbling," he said, expressing his deep relief that the tweet was picked up by the wider VO community. 'These are affected parties, important people, who had no idea they were being exploited in this way. My goal was to let a few specific people know, but now the entire VO community knows."[21

"VOs clearly do not need to spend hours of their day browsing Nexus Mods just to protect themselves.

They state that these mods "may be removed if we receive credible complaints from affected creators/rights holders," but given that there is an entire live document dedicated to tracking such things, it is hard to see how that would be a satisfactory I don't see how that would be a satisfactory solution.

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