Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers and Unknown voice cloning technology developers developed an AI system deployed by The US-China Narrative (YouTube channel) and Unknown actors impersonating Shaun Rein, which harmed Shaun Rein , Epistemic integrity and John Murray Press.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology , Unknown voice cloning technology and YouTube
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1380
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-01-09
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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An author who discovered “deepfake” YouTube videos of himself reading chapters of a book published in the UK by Hachette has suggested that video content is a “dangerous” new battle for publishers when it comes to breaches of copyright thro…
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