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Admittedly, the actions of SamA didn't help with the dumpster fire that is the discourse surrounding this.

However, the principle still stands.




The legal issue here would be intent. Of course it isn't illegal to have a voice that sounds like someone else, but Sam seems to have been arrogant enough to actually make their intent pretty easy to piece together with a small amount of public information. A lawsuit would allow discovery, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if internal emails even more explicitly spell out the intent to copy the voice from Her.

Proving intent is extremely hard and I always wonder how anyone that has enough power to pay attention let's their intent be documented. At least for Sam it sure seems to be due to a massive amount if arrogance.




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