Performing Artists Push for Copyright Protection from AI Deepfakes

Author: Umberto Bacchi; Publisher: Reuters; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how TikTok’s original text to speech voice was modeled after Bev Standing, a Canadian voice actress, whose performance was never licensed by the platform. Instead, some of her previous work was acquired by the developers, and an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was used to develop the voice that was ultimately…