By Ray Ampoloquio · Sep 29, 2026 Updated by Matt Gibbs · Sep 29, 2026 Rockstar warned streamer IlloJuan to stop using AI mods that clone real voices in Grand Theft Auto V , or face video removals and channel strikes.

The recently announced new mod rules just got their first high-profile enforcement, and the target is one of Spain's biggest streamers. According to IlloJuan, Rockstar Games contacted him to demand he stop using certain mods in his Grand Theft Auto V streams, warning that his videos could be pulled and his channel hit with copyright strikes and policy violations if he did not comply.

Rockstar telling a GTA streamer to stop using mods is one thing. The type of mods they specifically singled out is another. IlloJuan says the main problem was a mod that used AI to recreate the voices of real people without permission, including fellow streamers like Ibai and Knekro and public figures such as Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.

Cloning a real person's voice with AI and dropping it into Grand Theft Auto is ripe for controversy, especially in regards to privacy, and is therefore exactly the kind of thing Rockstar would move to shut down. Going zero tolerance on this isn't too far off from the stance that Ned Luke, the voice of Michael de Santa , took a few years back .

The timing is not a coincidence. This comes only days after Rockstar published its new mod guidelines , which added fresh restrictions around AI and third-party content. One line in those rules is very clear about it: do not use any real-world person's voice, image or likeness without written permission.

An AI mod cloning Ibai or a sitting head of government breaks that very specific rule .

Rockstar's first visible mod-rule enforcement, aimed at a streamer with a huge audience.

IlloJuan says Rockstar Spain acted as the middleman, passing along the message from the company's legal team in New York. This is the same Spanish arm tied to Rockstar's recently opened Madrid studio , now fronting enforcement against a local creator. A warning routed through a regional office is more personal than a generic legal notice and it suggests Rockstar is willing to chase this down market by market.

Enforcement of the new rules will not stop with just one creator. The same mod has been used by other Spanish and Latin American creators, so anyone running it is potentially in the same position. IlloJuan just has the biggest audience, which makes him the clearest and most obvious example.

The message to every other creator using AI voice mods is hard to miss.

This fits where Rockstar is heading with modding before Grand Theft Auto VI . The company spent years tolerating the mod scene , then bought its way into it and started drawing firm lines, funneling sanctioned modding toward its own official Creator Platform while cracking down on the rest . AI voice cloning of real people sits far on the wrong side of those lines.

With this move, Rockstar is confirming that the days of dropping unlicensed AI voices into a GTA stream without consequence are officially over.

Ray Ampoloquio Editor and News Writer, GTA BOOM

Ray is a GTA BOOM editor and news writer covering GTA 6, Rockstar and Take-Two, GTA Online and franchise history using primary-source reporting.