“Flip is total.” Bruno Maltor, influential travel known on YouTube (496,000 subscribers) and Tiktok (644,000 subscribers), discovered with fear that his voice had been stolen. As he relates to LinkedIn, a YouTube account cloned his voice using artificial intelligence to illustrate his geography videos. This, without your authorization.
The account in question is that of the Carteminut chain. Active on YouTube since April, it has more than 8,000 subscribers on YouTube. It is also present in Tiktok (23 subscribers). As the influencer explained to Le Figaro, it was thanks to his subscribers who discovered that the chain used his voice.
Inform content
Bruno Maltor is far from being the first victim of this type of use. The different have already seen their voices cloned by AI without their authorization. In March, the French duplicate family of Robert De Niro, who died in 2021, discovered that his voice had been reproduced by an AI in an audiobook channel of YouTube. In April 2024, the YouTubeur Cyprien saw its voice and its image reproduced in a false ad for a casino application.
If that happens to him, there are several ways to obtain his case, as evidenced by Bruno Maltor’s case. To start, you can inform content using your voice with the platforms in which they have been published. This is what the influencer did before inviting his subscribers to follow him. And many of them supported him in his approach.
Result: YouTube caused the chain card videos to be inaccessible “due to a complaint for damage to the copyright sent by Bruno Maltor.”
An initiative for time consumption
In addition to the reports, you can also comment on the account accounts that your voice has cloned. It is through this initiative that the cameraman has obtained the elimination of all the contents of the chain.
Just after sending it, the author withdrew all the videos. But your account is always available on YouTube and Tiktok. However, if commenting on the publications of the latter worked in the case of Bruno Maltor, it is not certain that this is effective in all cases. But he also has the possibility of contacting a lawyer, such as influencer, even if he can take time and not succeed.
In May 2024, two American duplicators filed a complaint against the startup of the Lovo, accusing him of having stolen his voice. While the company had hired them to provide vocal clips for internal research, it has cloned their voices to use them in podcasts and other content, they criticize. But after a modification of legal action, Lovo retired when submitting an inadmissibility application, that is not that it does not meet the conditions to be examined or treated. To date, the dispute has not yet been resolved.
Source: BFM TV
