The legendary actor known as “the voice of God” is not a fan of artificial intelligence.

Oscar winner Morgan Freeman is taking legal action amid a surge of AI replicating his voice without permission or payment.

“I’m a little PO’d, you know,” he told the Guardian in an interview published this week. “I’m like any other actor: Don’t mimic me with falseness. I don’t appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you’re gonna do it without me, you’re robbing me.”

The veteran actor — who notably served as the narrator in “The Shawshank Redemption,” played God in “Bruce Almighty” and its sequel, “Evan Almighty,” and voiced documentaries like “The Civil War” and “March of the Penguins” — said that his lawyers have already uncovered “many” instances of the unauthored used of his voice, and are pursuing action against “quite a few” of them.

“Well, I tell you, my lawyers have been very, very busy,” he told The Guardian.

When asked about the controversy surrounding AI “actress” Tilly Norwood, Freeman, 88, didn’t mince words with this opposition.

“Nobody likes her because she’s not real, and that takes the part of a real person, so it’s not going to work out very well in the movies or in television,” he said. “The union’s job is to keep actors acting, so there’s going to be that conflict.”

Dutch actress Eline Van der Velden, who founded the AI production studio Particle 6, is the mastermind behind the synthetic performer that the SAG-AFTRA union has decried as a dangerous creation that could ultimately push real-life actors out of the industry.

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