A Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human

The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human

Voice actor Shen Anyu's AI-cloned voice spread so widely that platforms now flag his real recordings as synthetic. Former clients switched to AI versions, and a livestreamer sold his cloned voice for pennies. He and his wife now spend most of their time documenting copies and filing complaints, but tracing creators is hard and legal costs may exceed recovery.

Why it matters: This Sixth Tone feature isn't a product launch, but it lays out the infringement chain concretely: platform false positives, client defection, cloned voice packs sold for pennies, legal costs exceeding recovery. All three HKR axes hit. Score capped below 85 because it's a huma...