28 August 2026
Actors demand UK law to protect voices from AI cloning
First reported
BBC News and The Guardian ran this on , all on the same day.
- More than 80 UK performers, including Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan, signed an open letter asking the government to make voice ownership a legal right to prevent unauthorized AI cloning.
- Voice cloning technology can replicate a person's voice in seconds using just a few audio samples, then use that clone to make the person say anything without their knowledge or permission.
Reported by The Guardian, BBC News