Two voice actors are suing an artificial intelligence startup in a proposed federal class action lawsuit for violating trademark laws, to train their AI.Paul Skey Lehrman and Linnea Sage were hired by Lovo, an AI company, back in 2019 and 2020 to provide voice clips for what they were told would be internal research.'On three occasions in writing they had given me assurances of how and where it would be used for internal purposes only and never forward facing,' Lehrman said.
'We need a uniform statutory scheme that's gonna protect not only public figures and celebrities, but just about every person and citizen of America, because AI can clone and replicate anybody.'Lehrman and Sage said their voices are their livelihoods, now being stolen by AI.'I have such an incredibly pessimistic view of the future of voiceover,' Sage said. 'So far this year to date I've lost 75% of the work that I would've normally done up until now.