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Why I Won't Sell My Voice To AI

Why I Won't Sell My Voice To AI

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Jessica Neighbor
Jun 11, 2025
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I have been receiving AI Voice Over job listings on LinkedIn and Indeed recently, which chills me to the bone.

One recent job posting states that they are building an AI voice model, and that “Your voice will be used to train an AI which may sound like your voice.”

The listing shares a script sample, which reads pretty innocuously, something like, “Hey, let’s grab a coffee sometime and talk about this cool new product “blank”. As a Voice coach and performer, I have done some voice-over work.

Yet the idea of training an AI voice model, a Hal-like robot, to sell unknown products to who knows who feels nefarious. Once I “sell” my voice, it can be used and manipulated without my consent. It’s one thing to read a script as a voice-over actor and sign off on the text. It’s different when you’re training an AI to speak using your voice, which will then “grow intelligence” to create its responses in your likeness.

There are also multiple listings seeking…

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