Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Team Up With ElevenLabs to Recreate Their Voices Using AI

Academy Award-winning actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have partnered with AI audio firm ElevenLabs to create digital replicas of their iconic voices, at the same time as outstanding Hollywood figures proceed to denounce AI’s encroachment on their craft.

McConaughey has been an “investor and early supporter” of the platform for years and plans to make use of the voice cloning know-how to launch a Spanish version of his ‘Lyrics of Livin” e-newsletter, based on a assertion launched on Tuesday.

Caine has listed his voice on the corporate’s new Iconic Voice Market, a platform that permits manufacturers and producers to pay to make use of AI variations of superstar voices for every little thing from audiobooks to advert campaigns.

The offers mark a degree of rivalry, with actors divided between those that embrace AI’s business potential and people who see it as an existential menace to their livelihoods.

“Since our first dialog, I’ve been impressed with how the ElevenLabs group has turned the magic of core know-how into merchandise that creators, enterprises and storytellers use on daily basis,” McConaughey mentioned in an announcement from ElevenLabs, as quoted in a Selection report.

Caine’s voice is now being marketed alongside digital voice replicas of deceased celebrities Judy Garland, John Wayne, Babe Ruth and Alan Turing.

First Girl Melania Trump teamed up with ElevenLabs to publish an audiobook model of her memoir, utilizing an AI-generated reproduction of her voice.

Hollywood stars are resisting

Three-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro declared “Fuck AI!” at a New York Metropolis screening of his Netflix movie “Frankenstein” final week, later narrate NPR he would “moderately die” than use generative AI in his movies.

Not too long ago at Stephen Colbert’s late presentAcademy Award winner Dame Emma Thompson expressed “intense irritation” at Microsoft’s AI assistant’s provide to rewrite her scripts: “I do not fucking want you to rewrite what I simply wrote!”

“Iron Man” star and Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. promised final October to “sue all future executives” who create unauthorized digital replicas utilizing generative AI of his Iron Man character, whereas Nicolas Cage referred to as AI ‘inhumane’, warning younger actors that know-how desires to ‘take away your instrument’.

Boris Rehlinger, the French voice of Ben Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix, leads the TouchePasMaVF initiative to guard human dubbing from being changed by AI.

“I really feel threatened regardless that my voice hasn’t been changed by AI but,” Rehlinger mentioned Reuters.

The Display screen Actors Guild has waged a multi-year battle over AI rights, placing for 118 days in 2023 to protected protections of the ‘menace of AI.’

Across the similar time, online game artists launched a separate strike in July 2024 over AI voice cloning. which places an finish to the years of motion with a contract requiring express consent and “cryptographic proof” for AI-generated efficiency.