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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Rachael Davies

Stephen Fry expresses his anger at his voice being AI cloned for documentary

Stephen Fry has cautioned against the use of the AI, using his own experience to highlight possible dangers.

Speaking at the tech-based CogX festival in London, he played a clip of a history documentary that faked his voice, without his knowledge. It appears as though the actor is narrating the show but the AI-generated voice was actually created by technology learning from Fry reading all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks.

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