Assassin's Creed Voice Actor Calls AI-Generated Mods the 'Invisible Enemy We're Fighting Right Now'

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AI is at the center of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood, as writers and actors are concerned over how studios will take advantage of the rapidly-advancing technology moving forward. Those concerns are also bleeding into the world of video games, specifically in the voice actor community.

Last week, we shared the controversy in the Skyrim community, where dozens of voice actors discovered AI-generated NSFW Skyrim mods using synthetic versions of their actual vocal performances. The characters in these mods sound like the real-life actors, but they're saying lines the voice actors never actually performed — often in pornographic contexts. Many of these mods are hosted on the mod distributor Nexus Mods.

Now, Victoria Atkin — who played Evie Frye in 2015's Assassin's Creed syndicate — has discovered that her voice is also being used in AI-generated pornographic mods on Nexus Mods.

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IGN spoke with Atkin, alongside Tim Friedlander, the founder and president of the National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA), about AI's continuing threat to the voice actor community.

"I was kind of shocked, really, that it's been used without my say, without my consent, it's just out there," Atkin said of the moment she learned how her voice was being used. "To think that my living could be taken away because somebody could copy it and modify it and make me say whatever they want me to say, it's extremely frightening… It's a threat all around. It's kind of like this invisible enemy that we're fighting right now."

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