'Voice actors are being abused' by Skyrim modding communities using AI
Players are seeing a severe increase in M-rated Skyrim mods that are using AI-generated voices based on real voice actors.
Recently, the Skyrim modding community has been plagued by AI voice generators using voice actors without their consent. Now many of the actors have come out decrying the practice of cloning performances without consent, especially for pornographic purposes.
AI-generated voice acting has become more prevalent thanks to the new AI tool ElevenLabs. It slowly gathered momentum through 2022 among Skyrim modders, with Nexus Mods officially stating that «AI-generated mod content is not against our rules», which added further controversy to the AI debate.
With the rise of AI voice cloning, voice actors are being abused by the modding communities. As a member of the Skyrim modding scene, I am deeply concerned at the practice of using AI voice cloning to create and distribute non-consensual deepfake pornographic content. pic.twitter.com/ySUFqrtjH0July 1, 2023
The lengthy Twitter post argues that «voice actors are being abused by the modding communities», user Robbie92_ said. «I am a deeply concerned member of the mod community for The Elder Scrolls series of games».
Robbie lists the names of voice actors who have lent their talents to The Elder Scrolls series of games and have subsequently been impersonated by AI voice cloning to create pornographic content.
Luckily, players can do a few things right now to try and alleviate this problem. These problematic game mods are being hosted on the Nexus mods website, so Robbie points users towards contacting the host website to voice complaints and «demand the removal of works containing your voices used for deep fake pornographic content».
The site does, in fact,
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