Persona voice actress driven off Twitter after condemning video that cloned her voice using AI
As discussions around AI, ethics, and consent continue to swell, one popular voice actress has found herself the target of harassment leading to her departure from Twitter.
Fans on Reddit spotted that Erica Lindbeck—who lent her voice to Futaba Sakura in Persona 5 and Black Cat in Insomniac's Spider-Man—had deleted both her Twitter and Instagram accounts over the weekend. It comes after she received backlash from AI advocates for calling out a YouTube video which cribbed from her voicework in Persona 5 to generate a cover of Bo Burnham's song Welcome to the Internet.
Unfortunately, there are very few archived tweets of the event, but a few screenshots have circulated around Reddit and Twitter. Lindbeck appears to have expressed her unhappiness with the AI-generated video's existence, tweeting the link along with the request: «Please report this stuff you guys, this is such a violation.» The call to mass report the video appears to be what caught the attention of trolls, who went on to reupload the video across social media in retaliation. This is despite the original creator taking the video down, with Lindbeck later tweeting «The creator of the video is lovely—they messaged me and apologized. I have no ill towards them, and next time this happens I will handle it differently.»
In further tweets, Lindbeck clarified: «It's not about *this* video in particular or *this* creator specifically. I've had a content creator make an AI video of my character [referring to her character of Loona on TV show Helluva Boss] saying disparaging remarks regarding the show I was on. Literally putting words in my mouth that could easily be taken as mine. As an artist, that is so terrifying. I absolutely believe these people are making this
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