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 distinguished Hollywood figures proceed to denounce AI’s encroachment into their craft.

McConaughey has been an “investor and early supporter” of the platform for years, and plans to make use of the voice cloning tech to launch a Spanish version of his “Lyrics of Livin'” publication, in accordance with a statement launched Tuesday. 

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

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

“Since our first dialog, I have been impressed by how the ElevenLabs crew has taken the magic of the core expertise and turned it into merchandise that creators, enterprises, and storytellers use each day,” McConaughey mentioned in a press release offered by ElevenLabs, as cited in a Selection report. 

Caine’s voice now joins {the marketplace} alongside digital voice replicas of deceased celebrities Judy Garland, John Wayne, Babe Ruth, and Alan Turing.

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

Hollywood Stars resist

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

Just lately on Stephen Colbert’s late show, Academy Award winner Dame Emma Thompson expressed “intense irritation” with Microsoft’s AI assistant providing to rewrite her scripts: “I do not want you to fucking rewrite what I’ve simply written!”

“Iron Man” star and Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. vowed final October to “sue all future executives” who create digital replicas utilizing generative AI of his Iron Man character with out permission, whereas Nicolas Cage called AI “inhumane,” warning younger actors the expertise “desires to take your instrument.”

Boris Rehlinger, the French voice of Ben Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix, is main the TouchePasMaVF initiative to guard human dubbing from AI substitute. 

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

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

Across the similar time, online game performers launched a separate strike in July 2024 over AI voice cloning, ending the year-long action with a contract requiring express consent and “cryptographic proof” for any AI-generated performances.