AI policy
Last updated 6 October 2026
CastGenX uses AI to help you write, voice, score and package podcast episodes. Listeners deserve to know when a voice is synthetic, and real people deserve control over their own voices. This policy sets out how we make that happen and what we expect from you. It is part of the terms of service.
1. Where CastGenX uses AI
- Writing: drafting, extending and editing scripts, show notes, chapters, titles and marketing copy, and the studio Copilot.
- Voices: synthetic voices for AI hosts and co-hosts, including an AI co-host that can reply live during a recording, and your own cloned voice if you make one.
- Audio: transcription, AI music and sound effects, and repairing a flubbed word in your own take with your own voice.
- Images: cover art.
- Checks: automated quality and safety checks on script and metadata text.
The providers behind each feature are on the subprocessors page.
2. Your content is not training data
We do not use your scripts, recordings, voice or episodes to train AI models, and we turn on providers' no-training and no-storage options where they exist. See the privacy policy.
3. How AI content is labelled
Every episode made with CastGenX carries AI disclosure, on every plan, including brand-free ones:
- Spoken: AI voices introduce themselves as AI in the episode.
- In the file: the audio carries a machine-readable tag (
AI_GENERATED=true) and a comment describing the AI involvement. - In the feed: each episode can carry an AI disclosure line in the show notes and in the feed's
podcast:txttags, saying where AI was used. - AI co-host replies are labelled as AI and are never presented as a guest's words.
These markers help you meet platform rules and transparency laws such as Article 50 of the EU AI Act. You remain responsible for any extra disclosure the platforms you publish to or the law where you publish require. Do not remove or obscure the markers.
4. Who owns AI output
- As between you and CastGenX, you own the scripts, audio and images generated for you, and we assign to you any rights we have in them.
- The law on AI output is still developing. In some countries purely AI-generated material may not be protected by copyright, so others may be free to use similar material. Your own creative contribution (your ideas, edits, recordings and arrangement) strengthens your rights.
- AI can produce similar output for different people. We do not promise that output is unique, and the same rights do not attach to output generated for someone else.
- Output is also subject to the terms of the provider that generated it, for example for AI music and sound effects.
5. Voices and impersonation
- Your own voice only. You may clone only your own voice, through the live consent flow in Settings → Your voice. The terms are in the voice clone consent. Only you can use your cloned voice.
- No other voices. Guests are never cloned, and you may not clone, imitate or describe a prompt to sound like any named real person, living or dead, including public figures.
- No fake statements. Do not use AI to put words in a real person's mouth, or to make a listener believe a real person said something they did not.
- No fake endorsements. AI voices do not read first-person endorsements or testimonials in ads; those reads go to a real person.
- Guests' words are their own. A guest's recorded words are never re-voiced by AI.
6. Honest AI hosts
We build AI hosts to be useful, not flattering. Scripts are checked for empty agreement and stock clichés, and AI hosts are expected to push back or ask a clarifying question. AI can still be wrong: check facts, names, numbers, quotes and claims before you publish. You are responsible for what your show says.
7. Sensitive topics
Take extra care with news, health, legal, financial and political content. Do not present AI-written material as professional advice, and do not make content designed to mislead people about elections, emergencies or public health. The acceptable use policy applies to everything made with AI.
8. Reporting misuse
If you believe CastGenX was used to imitate your voice or put words in your mouth, email support@castgenx.com with a link to the content. We treat these reports as urgent.