The &34;Seven&34; star suggested that he's pursuing legal action against &34;many&34; of his imitators: &34;My lawyers have been very, very busy.&34; Morgan Freeman slams AIgenerated voices copying his own: 'Don't mimic me with falseness' The &34;Seven&34; star suggested that he's pursuing legal action against &34;many&34; of his imitators: &34;My lawyers have been very, very busy.&34; By Wesley Stenzel :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/WesleyStenzelauthorphoto32b61793a2784639af623f2ae091477e.jpg) Wesley Stenzel is a news writer at . He began writing for EW in 2022.

The "Seven" star suggested that he's pursuing legal action against "many" of his imitators: "My lawyers have been very, very busy."

Morgan Freeman slams AI-generated voices copying his own: 'Don't mimic me with falseness'

The "Seven" star suggested that he's pursuing legal action against "many" of his imitators: "My lawyers have been very, very busy."

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- Morgan Freeman said he's "PO'd" at people using AI to copy his voice: "You're robbing me."

- The *Shawshank Redemption* star also suggested his "lawyers have been very, very busy" pursuing legal action against AI imitators.

- Freeman also slammed AI actress Tilly Norwood: "Nobody likes her because she's not real."

Morgan Freeman has one of Hollywood's most iconic voices — and he has no intention of letting anyone exploit it without his consent.

The *Shawshank Redemption* star said that he's unhappy with AI programs cloning his voice without his involvement.

"I'm a little PO'd, you know," he told *The Guardian*. "I'm like any other actor: Don't mimic me with falseness. I don't appreciate it, and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you're gonna do it without me, you're robbing me."

Freeman suggested that his legal team has already begun pursuing litigation against "many" of his imitators: "Well, I tell you, my lawyers have been very, very busy."

Morgan Freeman in Los Angeles on April 26.

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The *Seven* star noted that he made an effort to maximize the quality of his voice after receiving advice from Robert Whitman, an instructor at the community college he attended.

"If you're going to speak, speak distinctly, hit your final consonants, and do exercises to lower your voice," he recalled learning. "Most people's voices are higher than they would be normally if they knew how to relax it. He taught that sort of thing."

Freeman also slammed Tilly Norwood, the AI actress that caused a stir last month after reports that talent agencies considered signing the synthetic performer as a client.

"Nobody likes her because she's not real and that takes the part of a real person, so it's not going to work out very well in the movies or in television," he opined. "The union's job is to keep actors acting, so there's going to be that conflict."

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Indeed, SAG-AFTRA is unenthused by Norwood's existence, and offered a statement condemning AI performers shortly after the "actress" first made headlines.

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"To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it's a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation," the union wrote. "It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we've seen, audiences aren't interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience."**

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