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Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning

The Guardian Australia - Technology · 28 August 2026 at 5:15 pm

Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning

About 80 people sign open letter to Andy Burnham calling for legislation to protect voice ownership Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas are among a raft of actors backing a campaign against artificial intelligence (AI) voice cloning.

Save Our Voices Now, which is also being supported by Luke Evans, Jen Brister, Siobhán McSweeney and Pearl Mackie, aims to stop the practice in which AI technology is used to replicate a real person’s voice to say anything it is prompted to.

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Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning

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