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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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Reported occurrence date: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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