Persona Actor Leaves Twitter After Calling Out AI Video Using Her Voice
Erica Lindbeck, the voice actor best known for her work in games such as Persona, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, and Mortal Kombat has left Twitter. This comes after an online feud with a content creator that used her voice in an AI-generated video, something she had strongly opposed.
Lindbeck called on her followers to report this and similar videos, since it uses her voicework for Persona 5 in a way she did not consent to. The video's creator hit back, accusing Lindbeck of starting an "harassing campaign" over a "dumb but harmless Futaba AI cover video". This appears to have prompted Lindbeck's decision to leave Twitter, and it's not clear when, or if, she'll be back.
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While the subject is proving divisive, both fans and fellow voice actors are rushing to Lindbeck's defence. This was only exacerbated when the video's creator argued that asking fans to report AI content was an harassment campaign, a characterisation most appear to disagree with. Although the creator has their own supporters too, reuploading the video once it was taken down.
The video that sparked this online spat is something most of us are used to seeing on social media by now - AI-generated voice lines, making it so a person or character is acting out a scene or covering a song. In this case, it was an AI cover of Futaba singing Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnham. Reuploads are still on YouTube, and it's pretty convincing. To some, it could definitely pass as official voice work, so it's easy to see why actors are disturbed by this technology - on both a professional and personal level.
Mike Pollock, the longtime voice actor of Eggman in the Sonic series, is one
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