{"id":87456,"date":"2026-08-12T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87456"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:36:32","slug":"the-voice-of-the-witchers-geralt-says-hed-sue-every-single-ai-platform-with-his-voice-on-it-into-the-ground-if-he-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87456","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of The Witcher&#8217;s Geralt Says He&#8217;d Sue Every Single AI Platform With His Voice on It &#8216;Into the Ground&#8217; if He Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Doug Cockle, the voice behind The Witcher\u2019s Geralt, has hit out at AI platforms that feature his voice, saying he\u2019d sue them if he could.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Polygon\/status\/2087215018785784086\">Polygon<\/a>, Cockle called AI replications of his voice \u201cthe bugbear of my life,\u201d and expressed concern at the technology being used to make Geralt say awful things, which might then mislead some into thinking Cockle had actually provided the voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had the power, the money, and the influence, I would sue every single AI platform out there with my voice on it. I would sue them into the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than money or anything else is that they could make Geralt say horrible things. They could make Geralt a racist. They could make him a misogynist. They could make him have political views that are absolutely horrific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m being a little bit passionate about this, but it is the bugbear of my life at the moment. There are people behind these voices. They\u2019re not just digital imprints.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"every-cd-projekt-red-review\" data-value=\"every-cd-projekt-red-review\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Cockle has been a vocal critic of generative AI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-witcher-voice-actor-doug-cockle-calls-ai-inevitable-but-dangerous\">telling IGN in 2023 that he was worried about people using it for nefarious purposes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI is inevitable and developers will use AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Cockle, the voice behind The Witcher\u2019s Geralt, has hit out at AI platforms that feature his voice, saying he\u2019d sue them if he could. Speaking to Polygon, Cockle called AI replications of his voice \u201cthe bugbear of my life,\u201d and expressed concern at the technology being used to make Geralt say awful things, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":87458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87460,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87456\/revisions\/87460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}