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A Shanghai Voice Actress Beat an AI Clone of Her Voice. The Company Couldn’t Say Where It Came From

Published October 1, 2026October 1, 2026 Owen Castellano AI voice cloning, China, court ruling, personality rights, Shanghai, training data, voice actors, voice rights

Shanghai’s No. 1 Intermediate Court upheld damages for a voice actress cloned without consent, and made the AI company prove its training data. It couldn’t.