They stole my voice with AI

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2024-09-22 04:00:01

I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty familiar. I mean I would like you to subscribe to my channel. But that's the Jeff Geerling channel, not Elecrow, where the clip above is from. I never said the words that are in that video.

Someone emailed me a link to Elecrow's video and said it sounded off. I'm guessing at least some of the thousands of people who watched the video thought I agreed to voice some Elecrow videos, since I talk about some of the same topics on my channel.

I even reviewed one of their products a few years ago, the CrowPi 2. I didn't have a bad relationship with them in the past. They make electronics and even Raspberry Pi accessories.

And I don't know if I can prove it, I mean how can you? But I'm pretty sure they fed my YouTube videos into some AI voice clone tool, then used my voice to narrate multiple series of promotional tutorials, like this one on ESP32, and this one on RP2040.

I remember when OpenAI practically cloned Scarlett Johanssen's voice, but I thought the fallout from that would lead to companies being careful about the AI voices they use for things like product demos and tutorials...