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YouTuber Jeff Geerling discovered that electronics company Elecrow had cloned his voice, without his knowledge or consent and used an AI-generated version of it to make dozens of its own promotional tutorials.

Jeff Geerling, a software developer and content creator with about 700,000 subscribers on YouTube, makes videos about hardware products like Raspberry Pi and 3D printers. But about a week ago, Geerling discovered that electronics company Elecrow had cloned his voice, without his knowledge or consent, and used an AI-generated version of it to make dozens of its own promotional tutorials. “It doesn’t matter whether I have zero subscribers or 50 million, it’s just not okay,” he said in one of his YouTube videos. When Geerling flagged the issue, the company’s CEO apologized and quickly took down the videos.

Geerling isn’t the only one who says his likeness was stolen to train an AI program. Voice actors and celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman have previously raised similar concerns.

Now let’s get into the headlines.

On Wednesday, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she’s leaving the company to do her “own exploration.” Her departure comes as the AI juggernaut continues to bleed senior executives and key researchers, including chief scientist and cofounder Ilya Sutskever, cofounder John Schulman, VP of research Barret Zolph and chief........

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