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Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville among actors calling for law on AI voice cloning

The performers are asking the government to give every person in the UK a legal right to own their voice.

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The performers are asking the government to give every person in the UK a legal right to own their voice. Actors including Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan have written to the UK government demanding greater protection against their voices being used by AI. The performers are asking Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce legislation which would give every person in the UK a legal right to own their voice. Voice clones are created by training AI on recordings of real people. "My voice is out there in the public domain but completely unprotected," she said. A government spokesperson told the BBC that, while "digital replicas can be a powerful tool, including for the creative industries," there was also possibility for harm. "We value and protect human creators, and that is why we have announced we will launch a consultation on how we address these harms, while protecting legitimate innovation", the spokesperson said. "There is a way to work alongside AI and to use it as a tool that benefits us rather than rendering us obsolete," she said.

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