'Unauthorized' AI-generated voices in Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered have been removed

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A month after the actor who provided the French voice of Lara Croft issued a cease-and-desist to Aspyr over its use of AI-generated voice lines in Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, the studio has confirmed that the "unauthorized AI generated content" has now been removed.

The change was acknowledged in a message posted on Aspyr's support site (via Time Extension) saying that a hotfix was released on September 19 "to address unauthorized AI generated content."

It's a quiet conclusion to an ugly issue: French actor Françoise Cadol complained in August that a patch for the remasters of The Last Revelation, Chronicles, and Angel of Darkness replaced some lines in the game with AI-generated content, without her permission. Lene Bastos, the Brazilian Portuguese actor for the games, subsequently made a similar claim in a video posted to Instagram; a couple weeks later, Bastos said she'd received an apology from Aspyr, who pinned the blame for the inclusion of AI-generated voices on "an external development partner" and said they'd be removed within a few weeks.

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