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Spanish dubbing actor Claudio Serrano says a US-based AI platform offers an unauthorised clone of his voice under his name and image

Claudio Serrano, the Spanish dubbing actor who is the Spanish-language voice of Batman and Ant-Man, said in a TikTok video posted on 11 September 2026 that a US-based artificial intelligence platform, which he did not name, has a profile carrying his name, his image and an excerpt of a clone of his voice presenting itself, made and offered without his permission. Computer Hoy and Infobae relayed the video on 12 October 2026. Serrano said that when he tried to complain, the platform asked him to pass a voice captcha to prove he is the real Serrano, and that his lawyers are working on the matter. The platform's account of the voice, its name and any response are unknown.

AI system
Unidentified voice-cloning tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
12 October 2026
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Work · Privacy
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account
3 claims: 1 documented, 2 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Unnamed US-based AI platform offering a cloned version of the actor's voice on a profile with his name and image, as he describes it

What Happened

The complaint. In a TikTok video posted on 11 September 2026 (the platform's own timestamp) and captioned 'Lo de que te clonen la voz sin tu permiso…', Claudio Serrano, a Spanish dubbing actor and announcer, said that a US-based platform, which he declined to name so as not to publicise it, has a profile with his name, his image and an excerpt of his cloned voice presenting itself. Computer Hoy and Infobae relayed the video on 12 October 2026 and describe the platform as an artificial intelligence platform that cloned his voice without his permission.

Reported consequences. Serrano said anyone could use the voice to do whatever they wanted, and that when he tried to complain the platform asked him to pass a voice captcha to verify that he is the real Serrano. He said his lawyers are working on it.

What is not established. All of this rests on Serrano's own video as relayed by two outlets; the video's audio was not inspected for this record (only its caption and timestamp). The platform is unnamed, so its description of the voice, how it was made, whether anyone has used it and any platform response are unknown.

Reported harm

Serrano says an AI platform offers a clone of his voice under his name and image without his permission, that it asked him to pass a voice captcha when he complained, and that his lawyers are working on the matter.

Outcome

Ongoing

Serrano said his lawyers are working on the matter. No complaint to a regulator or court and no response from the platform are reported as of the 12 October 2026 reports.

What remains unknown

  • The platform's name, its description of the voice and how the clone was made
  • When the profile appeared and whether anyone has used the cloned voice
  • Any response from the platform and the outcome of his lawyers' work
  • The full content of the TikTok video (audio not inspected)

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Serrano says, in his own TikTok video as relayed by Computer Hoy and Infobae, that a US-based platform carries a profile with his name and image and an excerpt of a clone of his voice presenting itself, and that the voice sits there for anyone to use for whatever they want; in the same video he warns about what is given free to AI. The basis for AI generation is the platform's offering as he observed it: a voice on a platform profile that anyone can use to say whatever they want is a reusable generated voice, which a recording or a human imitator cannot be. Both outlets describe it as an artificial intelligence platform. The cloned voice impersonates him (depicted_or_impersonated) and is the object of his complaint. The platform is unnamed and its listing was not inspected for this record, so the platform's own description of the voice and how it was made rest on his account.

3 claims: 1 documented, 2 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported Serrano says a US-based platform, which he did not name, has a profile with his name, his image and an excerpt of a clone of his voice presenting itself, made without his permission, and that the voice sits there for anyone to use for whatever they want; Computer Hoy and Infobae describe it as an artificial intelligence platform.

Causal attribution. The actor's own account in a video, relayed by two outlets (one origin).

  • computerhoy.20minutos.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'una plataforma estadounidense de la que no comenta el nombre para no hacer publicidad cuenta con un perfil en el que aparece su nombre, su imagen e incluso un extracto de su voz clonada presentándose'; 'una plataforma de inteligencia artificial clone su voz sin su permiso'; 'estuviera ahí y lo pudiera usar cualquier para hacer lo que le diera la gana'; 'mucho cuidado con lo que se le está dando gratis a la IA'
  • infobae.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'una plataforma estadounidense incluye un perfil con su nombre, su imagen y un extracto de una voz clonada que se presenta como si fuera él.'; 'Serrano compartió su denuncia a través de TikTok.'; 'estuviera ahí y lo pudiera usar cualquiera para hacer lo que le diera la gana'
Reported Serrano says the platform asked him to pass a voice captcha to verify his identity when he complained, and that his lawyers are working on the matter.

Causal attribution. The actor's own account, relayed by two outlets (one origin).

  • computerhoy.20minutos.es(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'la propia plataforma le pide un captcha de voz para verificar que es el Serrano original'; '"Los abogados están con ello y a ver qué podemos hacer", asegura Serrano.'
  • infobae.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'la plataforma le solicita superar un captcha de voz para demostrar que él es la persona que presenta la denuncia.'; '“Los abogados están con ello y a ver qué podemos hacer”, aseguró Serrano'
Documented Serrano posted a TikTok video captioned 'Lo de que te clonen la voz sin tu permiso…' on 11 September 2026 (TikTok createTime 1789138430).

Causal attribution. The post's own caption and platform timestamp.

  • tiktok.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    '"desc":"Lo de que te clonen la voz sin tu permiso… #clonar #IA #doblaje #locucion #voiceover ¿Qué opináis? Os leo.'; '"createTime":"1789138430"'

Sources

3 sources inspected, from 1 underlying account. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in Spanish on 2026-10-13 through the MSN syndication copy (assets.msn.com Detail JSON, provider Computer Hoy, published 2026-10-12T06:45Z); the origin returned HTTP 403. Translation by the research agent (an AI). Relays Serrano's TikTok video. Applies to s1.

Read in Spanish on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200). Translation by the research agent (an AI). Relays the same TikTok video, so it shares an independence group with s1. Applies to s2.

TikTok oEmbed and page JSON read on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200): caption and createTime only; the video's audio was not inspected. Translation by the research agent (an AI). Applies to s3.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.

Event: the platform is described as US-based, but a provider's headquarters does not locate the event and where the profile was made or accessed is not stated. Affected person: he is described as a Spanish dubbing actor; nationality and working language do not establish where he was when affected. No court is involved.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-13: Published as a reported first-person account: dubbing actor Claudio Serrano said in a TikTok video of 11 September 2026, relayed by Computer Hoy and Infobae, that an unnamed US-based AI platform offers a clone of his voice under his name and image without his permission, that it asked him for a voice captcha when he complained, and that his lawyers are working on it. The platform is unnamed and its account is unknown. He is named as a public performer who made the complaint publicly himself.

People described

Claudio Serrano, a Spanish dubbing actor and announcer known as the Spanish voice of Batman and Ant-Man, whose voice he says was cloned and offered on an AI platform without his permission

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One person: Serrano, whose voice he says was cloned and offered (claim c1). He did not use the platform to make the clone. No users of the cloned voice or people deceived by it are reported.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#voice-cloning#voice-actor#dubbing#unauthorised-use#first-person-account

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Spanish dubbing actor Claudio Serrano says a US-based AI platform offers an unauthorised clone of his voice under his name and image. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-spanish-dubbing-actor-claudio-serrano-says-ai-platform-offers-unauthorised-clone-of-his-voice

BibTeX

@misc{2026_spanish_dubbing_actor_claudio_serrano_says_ai_platform_offers_unauthorised_clone_of_his_voice,
  title = {Spanish dubbing actor Claudio Serrano says a US-based AI platform offers an unauthorised clone of his voice under his name and image},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-spanish-dubbing-actor-claudio-serrano-says-ai-platform-offers-unauthorised-clone-of-his-voice}
}

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