Singaporean actor-director Aaron Aziz has lodged a police report towards 4 social media accounts for producing his voice utilizing Synthetic Intelligence (AI) to promote T-shirts.
The 48-year-old, who is predicated in Malaysia, additionally filed a report with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Fee (MCMC).
He advised Malaysian media that that is “in contrast to a standard crime case” as after he submitted the report on the police station, he was referred to MCMC to file one other.
“It’s a really tedious course of as they want a while to trace down the (scammers’) IP addresses,” he mentioned, as reported by Malaysian publication, Malay Mail.
He added that each experiences have been filed on Mar 11 and he’s presently ready for updates.
Aaron shared that his first encounter with the rip-off was a TikTok video that used a photograph of him and his AI-generated voice to promote polo T-shirts.
“They have been promoting the T-shirts for RM1 (S$0.28). It doesn’t make sense, and it’s my identify that’s affected as folks assume I’m the one promoting it,” he mentioned.
He shared that whereas the video was eliminated after he reached out to the person, it began to resurface.
In addition to that, he added that he had despatched a consultant to the T-shirt producers solely to be advised that it might be arduous to trace the culprits down as they have been working by way of many brokers and associates.
The actor added that he hoped to “see sooner motion from MCMC” and for a “particular unit” to be fashioned to sort out such instances as different personalities have additionally been affected.