David Attenborough, the legendary natural history presenter, is rallying against AI unauthorized cloning, specifically.
The situation was sparked when BBC News ran an item using voiceover from Attenboroughs latest BBC series,Asia.
There is nowhere else on Earth with so many untold stories.
David AttenboroughBBC Studios
Welcome then, to Asia.
Clue: they sounded almost identical, but the second was an AI-generated capture of his intonation.
I am not David Attenborough.
It was introduced as a bill in August.
AI was among the most pressing issues in the writers and actors labor strikes.
She added that the voice was reluctantly removed by the company once legal action had been threatened.
We reached out to reps for Attenborough, but they declined to comment further.
Asiais a seven-party series for BBC One and iPlayer that launched on November 3.
It is made by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, co-produced with BBC America, France Televisions and ZDF.
