{"id":246885,"date":"2026-05-15T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:10:08","slug":"tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants sued over \u2018stealing\u2019 voices of well-known journalists, voice actors to train AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/\">Tech giants sued over \u2018stealing\u2019 voices of well-known journalists, voice actors to train AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/\">https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 17:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"capitolnewsillinois.com\">capitolnewsillinois.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Article Summary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A group of well-known Chicago journalists, podcasters and voice actors are behind nine class-action lawsuits filed this week alleging major tech companies used their voices without their permission in order to train AI products.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuits represent a new area of focus for Illinois\u2019 strongest-in-the-nation biometric data privacy law, which has spawned thousands of lawsuits in the last decade or so. The litigation has netted Illinoisans millions of dollars in settlements, mostly over the collection of employees\u2019 fingerprints in timeclock technology.<\/li>\n<li>Plaintiffs include locally famous broadcast journalists Carol Marin and Phil Rogers, both retired from Chicago\u2019s NBC 5 news station, along with prolific audiobook narrators and podcasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Over hundreds of pages in legal filings this week, a group of well-known Chicago-based journalists, podcasters and voice actors accused tech giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others of \u201cstealing\u201d their voices to train Artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The nine class action lawsuits, filed in Chicago\u2019s federal court between Monday and Wednesday, represent a new frontier for Illinois\u2019 strongest-in-the-nation biometric data privacy law. In the last decade or so, the state\u2019s Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA, has spawned thousands of lawsuits against companies alleged to have collected and stored biometric data from employees and customers without proper notice or consent.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of that litigation \u2014 which has paid out millions of dollars to Illinoisans mostly via class-action settlements \u2014 has been over employee fingerprints collected by timeclock technology, though Facebook\u2019s $650 million settlement in 2020 was with users over facial recognition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><strong>Court rulings supercharge Illinois\u2019 strongest-in-nation biometric privacy law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But as companies adopted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants sued over \u2018stealing\u2019 voices of well-known journalists, voice actors to train AI https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/tech-giants-sued-over-stealing-voices-of-well-known-journalists-voice-actors-to-train-ai\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DIRKSEN-COURTHOUSE-0320-HM-2.jpg?fit=1140%2C801&quality=89&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246887,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246885\/revisions\/246887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}