Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack

[highplainsdem]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93axnd/voice-actors-doxed-with-ai-voices-on-twitter

Artificial intelligence-generated voices are already being used to harass ordinary people, with online trolls creating the voices and then having them read out victim’s home addresses and posting the results online, according to four victims Motherboard spoke to. All of the victims of this particular campaign are voice actors who have worked on video games in the past.

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“Hello, this is Abbey [name] speaking,” a sound clip posted to Twitter using a fake voice of an actor called Abbey says. Motherboard withheld some actors’ last names, including Abbey’s, at their request. The synthetic voice then reads out Abbey’s home address, and adds “I live in the [homophobic slur] city that is Los Angeles. Yes, that does also mean I live in California, the most [racist slur] state in the USA. Personally speaking, killing [racist slur] and [sexually abusive act] children is completely fine.”

The harassers posted similar audio clips on Twitter which included the home address and fake voices of at least three other actors. Zane has worked on Fallout 4 mods; Tom worked on Poppy Playtime. They also posted the address of another actor called Michael. The Twitter accounts created to share these peoples’ private information also retweeted another video using an AI-generated voice, this time in the style of Agent 47 from the Hitman games.

“I basically just saw I was tagged in a post, and the immediate thing I noticed was my home address, so I was surprised to say the least,” Tom told Motherboard in an email. “Then I registered it had the racist rhetoric, framed as inflammatory as possible in such a way an internet troll might do. From what I gathered, it was bait from the get go, trying to get a rise out of voice actors who had publicly expressed concerns about AI.” Last week Motherboard reported on raising concerns inside the voice actor industry about clients asking actors to sign the rights to their voices away so more material could be generated with AI later.

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Twitter took down one tweet, but not all of them.

Expect a lot of this aimed at politicians, too, and if Musk's Twitter tolerates it...

[patphil]

1. We're just seeing the beginning of this, it's going to get a whole lot worse.

AI is going to reek havoc on social media.