AI voiceover company stole voices of actors, New York lawsuit claims
The Hindu
Two voice actors sued AI startup Lovo, accusing the company of illegally copying their voices.
Two voice actors sued artificial-intelligence startup Lovo in Manhattan federal court on Thursday, accusing the company of illegally copying their voices and using them without permission in its AI voiceover technology.
Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage said in the proposed class-action lawsuit that San Francisco-based Lovo is selling AI versions of their voices without permission after tricking them into providing voice samples for the company. The actors, seeking damages of at least $5 million for the class, accused Lovo of fraud, false advertising and violating their publicity rights.
The case is the latest in a growing wave of high-stakes lawsuits in which tech companies have been accused of misusing content including books, news articles and song lyrics to power generative AI systems.
"We want to make sure this doesn't happen to other people," lawyer Steve Cohen of Pollock Cohen, representing the plaintiffs, told Reuters. "We don't know, of the thousands of voices Lovo says they use, how many people know that their voices were used and may still be used."
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Representatives for Lovo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Lehrman and Sage were approached on freelancer marketplace Fiverr to provide voiceover work for anonymous clients, according to the lawsuit. Lehrman was told his voice would be used only for a "research project," while Sage was told her voice would be used only with "test scripts for radio ads," the lawsuit stated.
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