{"id":237613,"date":"2026-06-26T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/peppa-pig-backlash-as-us-company-hasbro-requires-child-actors-to-sign-voices-over-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:25:50","slug":"peppa-pig-backlash-as-us-company-hasbro-requires-child-actors-to-sign-voices-over-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/peppa-pig-backlash-as-us-company-hasbro-requires-child-actors-to-sign-voices-over-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Peppa Pig backlash as US company Hasbro requires child actors to sign voices over to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/06\/26\/peppa-pig-backlash-as-us-company-hasbro-requires-child-actors-to-sign-voices-over-to-ai\">Peppa Pig backlash as US company Hasbro requires child actors to sign voices over to AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/06\/26\/peppa-pig-backlash-as-us-company-hasbro-requires-child-actors-to-sign-voices-over-to-ai\">https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/06\/26\/peppa-pig-backlash-as-us-company-hasbro-requires-child-actors-to-sign-voices-over-to-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 03:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.euronews.com\">www.euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the key points from the article on Hasbro&#8217;s use of AI in contracts for child actors on Peppa Pig:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI in Contracts<\/strong>: Hasbro, via its popular children&#8217;s show Peppa Pig, appears to be requiring child actors to grant AI rights to their voices for &#8220;commercial assets.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloning Concerns<\/strong>: The contractual clause could allow Hasbro to clone the child actors&#8217; voices indefinitely for promotions or other uses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Industry Backlash<\/strong>: Organized by the Agents of Young Performers Association (AYPA), nearly 1,000 industry professionals have condemned these AI terms in an open letter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethical Concerns<\/strong>: The letter emphasizes the need for careful consent when involving children and warns against using parental consent as a blanket approval for AI usage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Industry Trend<\/strong>: There is broader concern as AI contract clauses are becoming increasingly common in voiceover work, raising issues around cloning, training AI models, and unauthorized data usage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Company Stance<\/strong>: Hasbro has stated its commitment to protecting child performers and engaging with AI issues responsibly and transparently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more specific details and broader context, please refer to the official sources listed by Deadline and Variety.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peppa Pig backlash as US company Hasbro requires child actors to sign voices over to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/81\/44\/59\/1200x675_cmsv2_92106663-d1cf-56c5-ada1-4c1fef0ec3ab-9814459.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237615,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237613\/revisions\/237615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}