During his speech at CogX Festival on Thursday, Fry played a clip to the audience of an AI system mimicking his voice to narrate a historical documentary.

“I said not one word of that—it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” he said. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created, and it made that new narration.”

Taylor, C. (2023, September 15). Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2023/09/15/hollywood-strikes-stephen-fry-voice-copied-harry-potter-audiobooks-ai-deepfakes-sag-aftra-simon-pegg-brian-cox-matthew-mcconaughey/