(22 May 2025)
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Washington D.C. – 21 May 2025
1. Wide shot of Senate hearing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Martina McBride, recording artist:
"Thank you for inviting me to speak about S1367, the No Fakes Act of 2025, a landmark effort to protect human voices and likenesses from being cloned by artificial intelligence without consent."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martina McBride, recording artist::
"My voice and likeness, along with so many others are at risk. AI technology is amazing and can be used for so many wonderful purposes. But like all great technologies, it can also be abused in this case by stealing people’s voices and likenesses to scare and defraud families, manipulate the images of young girls in ways that are unconscionable, impersonate government officials, or make phony recordings posing as artists like me. It’s frightening and it’s wrong ."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martina McBride, recording artist:
"The thing that I’m most concerned with personally is how we work so hard to present ourselves with integrity and a certain character. And the fact that long-term that could be distorted or manipulated to be the opposite of what I stand for and what I believe, or to be used to cause harm to someone through endorsing a harmful product, or far into the future after I’m gone, somebody creating a piece of music or me saying something that I never did, and it’s just kind of disintegrating what what I’ve worked so hard to establish which is trust with my fans, with people who, you know, when I say something, they believe it."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martina McBride, recording artist:
"I mean, I just realized sitting here that I bought a product, a collagen supplement off of Instagram the other day because it had LeAnn Rimes and a couple of other people and I’m sitting here thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, I don’t even know if that was really them,’ right? So it’s damaging to the artist and to the fan. You know, we had a situation personally where one of my fans believed they were talking to me, ended up selling their house and funneling the money to someone who they thought was me. That is so devastating to me to realize that somebody who trusts me could be duped like that. And then also I think that eventually somebody who is duped by a deep fake is going to be angry enough to, you know, have retribution. We’re on stages in front of thousands of people, we’re in public places, so it’s a danger to the artist as well."
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STORYLINE:
Country singer Martina McBride testified before the Senate committee Wednesday about the No Fakes Act – a bipartisan legislative proposal aimed at protecting individuals from unauthorized AI-generated replicas of their voice and likeness.
"AI technology is amazing and can be used for so many wonderful purposes. But like all great technologies, it can also be abused," McBride testified. "We work so hard to present ourselves with integrity and a certain character. And the fact that long term that could be distorted or manipulated to be the opposite of what I stand for and what I believe"
Sharing a personal story on how one of her fans was scammed by a deepfake, McBride said; "We had a situation personally where one of my fans who believed they were talking to me, ended up selling their house and funneling the money to someone who they thought was me."
The No Fakes Act seeks to create federal protections for artists’ voice, likeness and image from unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes.
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