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Purported AI Voice Clone Allegedly Narrated Shaun Rein's 'The Split' in Unauthorized YouTube 'Podcast' Videos
Author Shaun Rein reported that seven YouTube "podcast" videos on the YouTube channel "The US-China Narrative" used an allegedly AI-cloned version of his voice to narrate material taken from his 2024 book The Split, without his or his publisher's permission. The videos reportedly drew 200,000+ streams in a week.
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