MiHoYo just made an AI voice service pay up ¥750,000 — that's about $112K — after the Shanghai Pudong court caught them cloning 63 Genshin Impact characters for paid voice packs. The outfit didn't just rip the voices; they slapped game art and animations into their promos, swapped character faces onto avatars, and let users preview stolen dialogue before checkout. Voiceprint analysis nailed it: the clones were "nearly identical" to the originals, and the defendant admitted training their model on one stolen minute of in-game audio mixed with other junk.

The court called it unfair competition on top of copyright infringement, ruling the character voices had become commercial identifiers after years of Genshin's run. MiHoYo originally wanted 5 million yuan; they settled for the smaller win plus an immediate stop to the service. The defendant tried appealing but dropped it, so the ruling sticks as Shanghai's first AI voice impersonation case.

Whales and F2Ps alike just watched the gacha king flex legal muscle against the AI grift. The service is dead, the money's flowing back to the studio, and anyone else thinking they can train on game audio for profit now has a very clear warning shot from Chinese courts. Free voice packs? Not on this server's watch.