Rockstar Games has made the first visible use of its new modding rules against one of Spain's biggest streamers. IlloJuan says the publisher told him to stop running certain mods in his Grand Theft Auto V broadcasts, and warned that otherwise his videos could be taken down and his channel could face copyright strikes and policy penalties.
The mod at issue used AI to imitate the voices of real people who had not agreed to it, among them fellow streamers Ibai and Knekro and Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez. Rockstar's updated mod guidelines, published only days earlier, forbid using any real person's voice, image or likeness without written permission. IlloJuan says the message came from the company's legal team in New York and was relayed by Rockstar's Spanish arm, the office tied to its new Madrid studio.
GTA Boom notes that other Spanish and Latin American creators run the same mod and could get similar warnings; IlloJuan is simply the one with the largest audience. The outlet reads the move as part of Rockstar's push, ahead of GTA VI, to steer modders towards its official Creator Platform and clamp down on what falls outside it, a line it likens to the one Michael de Santa actor Ned Luke took years ago. For anyone using AI voice mods, the outlet says, the signal is plain: unlicensed voices in a GTA stream will no longer go unpunished.
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