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Mortlock says he was contracted for 52 episodes but around the time of recording the 30th episode, production shut down.

"The producer messaged us saying they were cancelling the series. They didn't say specifically why, but I imagine they just weren't getting the return on investment they were looking for," he said.

While he was disappointed and wasn't paid out for the remaining episodes, Mortlock said that kind of unpredictability wasn't uncommon in the entertainment industry.

Around a year after the job ended, a sound engineer who was working with him on the project sent through a video of another episode of the series that had been uploaded to YouTube.


"We didn't know this was going to happen. They didn't ask us, they didn't even let us know and they definitely didn't pay us," he said. 

Teresa Lim, the vice-president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors (AAVA), says the rapid advancement in AI voice replication technology means voice replication without consent could become very commonplace in the future and affect many people. "At the moment there's nothing in Australian law that enables voice actors the protections they need with this new AI technology in place."

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