{"id":992843,"date":"2026-02-17T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992843"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:24:33","slug":"journalist-david-greene-sues-google-alleges-ai-tool-cloned-his-voice-without-permission-company-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/journalist-david-greene-sues-google-alleges-ai-tool-cloned-his-voice-without-permission-company-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist David Greene sues Google, alleges AI Tool cloned his voice without permission, company responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist David Greene, a longtime public radio host known for his work on NPR\u2019s Morning Edition and the political podcast Left, Right &amp; Center, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the company illegally replicated his distinctive voice for its AI-powered NotebookLM tool without consent or compensation. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California, accuses Google of training its NotebookLM Audio Overviews feature on Greene\u2019s voice and broadcasting style \u2013 including his rhythm, intonation, cadence, filler words like \u201cuh,\u201d and other verbal tics \u2013 to generate lifelike synthetic podcast hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist David Greene, a longtime public radio host known for his work on NPR\u2019s Morning Edition and the political podcast Left, Right &amp; Center, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the company illegally replicated his distinctive voice for its AI-powered NotebookLM tool without consent or compensation. The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California, accuses Google of training its NotebookLM Audio Overviews feature on Greene\u2019s voice and broadcasting style \u2013 including his rhythm, intonation, cadence, filler words like \u201cuh,\u201d and other verbal tics \u2013 to generate lifelike synthetic podcast hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}