

Mods available for the game range from the weird to the wonderful, with the creativity of the community seemingly never-ending. The dedication of the game's modding community has been a massive reason that Skyrim has been able to remain at the forefront of gaming culture. Skyrim was released in 2011, and remains one of the most-played games in the world. Skyrim, alongside the other Elder Scrolls titles, has never had a voiced protagonist before.

They've stated these mods "may be removed if we receive a credible complaint from an affected creator/rights holder", but considering there's an entire live document dedicated to tracking these things, I can't see that being a satisfying solution for anybody involved.In a video posted online, a Skyrimfan has revealed their mod which adds a voiced protagonist. Voice actors clearly shouldn't have to spend hours of their day browsing Nexus Mods just to protect themselves, and I can't even imagine the amount of time, money, and labour that would need to be poured into fighting this kind of AI use en-masse, and Nexus Mods' current attitude towards AI-generated work on their platform doesn't make matters easier. My goal was to make a few specific people aware, and now, the whole VO community knows."

"They are the affected parties, they are the ones who matter, and they had no idea they were being abused in this way. It is extremely humbling," he then went on to express a deep relief that the tweet had been picked up by the wider voice acting world. I never expected the whole VO community to pick up that tweet. "My goal was only to make a few specific people aware. Instead, the community cheered it on for the sake of our own amusement," _Robbie wrote to me in an email. We had an opportunity to self-police, to do the right thing, and we failed. "I became invested when the community let me down.

I reached out to Robbie92_, who is known in the wider modding community as _Robbie. "The Google doc was particularly helpful when I contacted my agent and also requested the content be taken down." Robbie92_ has also been doing considerable work via a google document to assemble a list of mods "that use AI cloning to produce non-consensual pornographic content" for the purposes of spreading awareness and reporting them, an exhaustive task that April Stewart thanked them for. Meanwhile Abbey Veffer, who voices a host of characters in The Elder Scrolls Online and Genshin Impact, wrote: "I do not, and never will, consent to my voice being used for AI synthesis, cloning, deepfakes, etc. Jennifer Hale, voice of Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect Series, also tweeted: "to make this CRYSTAL clear: if you do not have written permission to use my voice, you DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION to use my voice, including AI use."
