Lainey Wilson
Country Singer
The reigning face of country music testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the No AI FRAUD Act after AI deepfakes hijacked her voice and likeness, calling it “a gut punch.”
In her words
I do not have to tell you how much of a gut punch it is to have your name, your likeness, or your voice ripped from you and used in ways that you could never imagine or would never allow. It is wrong, plain and simple.
I am excited about a lot of ways that artificial intelligence can be used to help people, but I’m nervous about how it can be used to take personal rights.
Biography
Lainey Wilson (born 1992 in Baskin, Louisiana) spent a decade grinding in Nashville — famously living in a camper trailer — before “Things a Man Oughta Know” (2021) broke her through. She swept country music’s top honors, including CMA Entertainer of the Year and a Grammy for Bell Bottom Country, and acted in the series Yellowstone.
Testifying for the No AI FRAUD Act
On February 2, 2024, Wilson testified at a House Judiciary subcommittee field hearing in Los Angeles in support of the No AI FRAUD Act (H.R. 6943), a bipartisan bill creating federal protections for a person’s voice and likeness against unauthorized AI replicas. Her testimony came after deepfake content used her voice and image without consent — she told lawmakers that decisions about “the use of our own selves, our own unique qualities” should belong to the individual.
Wilson widened the frame beyond celebrities, pointing to high-school girls victimized by deepfake pornography and elderly people scammed by AI voice clones of their grandchildren. At the same hearing, Deadline reported, law professors warned the bill could carry unintended consequences for free expression — the recurring tension in every likeness-rights proposal.
Where they stand in the war
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Sources & further reading
Canonical record: https://battlelines.ai/topic/lainey-wilson