Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville among actors calling for law on AI voice cloning

Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville are among more than 80 performers who have signed a letter urging legislation on AI voice cloning. Siobhán McSweeney, known for her role in Derry Girls, said she was "deeply worried" that the authorities was lagging behind. She added, "There is simply a mode to enactment alongside AI and to usage it arsenic a instrumentality that benefits america alternatively than rendering america obsolete," and noted, "Our audiences privation that quality connection. Not AI." The letter also counts Scottish vocalist Sandi Thom, famed for her 2006 hit "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)". Thom explained she signed because her voice was "unique to maine and was handed to maine astatine birth". She continued, "Behind that dependable is the emotion, the life, the pain, the tears and joyousness that I've felt on the way," and asserted, "Without creativity, we are nothing." The initiative follows warnings from lawyers months earlier that UK legislation had become "unfit for purpose" amid AI advances. As Dr Mathilde Pavis observed in June, "The instrumentality comes close, but it doesn't afloat support your voice, your look oregon your identity," (Dr Mathilde Pavis said successful June). While some individuals unable to speak due to illness have welcomed voice‑replication technology, others have taken the concept further