NCIS actress granted restraining order after alleging ex used AI voice cloning
NCIS actress Katrina Law filed for and was granted a restraining order against her estranged husband Keith Andreen after alleging he used AI voice cloning to impersonate her in voice messages sent to multiple people, including a romantic partner. Law claimed Andreen leveraged publicly available AI tools and her footage as an actress to create synthetic voice recordings in her voice intended to damage her reputation.
What happened
On December 23, Katrina Law, a 40-year-old actress on the TV series NCIS, filed a petition for a restraining order against Keith Andreen, her 51-year-old estranged husband.
Law alleged that Andreen used AI voice cloning to impersonate her by sending voice messages to multiple people, including a new romantic partner, using her voice and likeness. Law stated that because she is an actress, Andreen had access to hours of footage of her speaking that could be used to train AI systems to clone her voice.
Reported impact
Law stated that the impersonated voice messages were confusing and out of character, and that multiple people told her they had received these messages. Law said she felt she could not live freely without being followed or monitored, and expressed concern about Andreen's increasingly unstable behavior.
Law alleged that Andreen attempted to spread false information and lies about her to friends and colleagues in an effort to destroy her reputation and career.
Index analysis
The case involves the misuse of publicly available AI voice cloning tools to create synthetic voice messages impersonating the victim without consent. Law noted that numerous AI programs available online allow anyone to clone a voice and use text-to-speech prompts to generate speech in the cloned voice.
Governance controls
A judge granted Law a restraining order against Andreen on December 23, finding sufficient basis to issue protection. Law indicated that recordings of the alleged AI-impersonated voice messages would be produced at trial.
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