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I can't get any of the voices to work, they all error out.",{"value":130,"source":100,"evidence":131},"Legal risk from celebrity voice use",[132,136],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"23970473","Dramatize","I think you're going to have legal risks with a project like this. At some point a celebrity is going to sue and we'll find out what the law decides.",{"id":137,"by":11,"text":138},"23966955","I'm not a lawyer, but I think we're entering into a legal gray area. There are the existing frameworks of copyright, parody, free speech, slander, libel, etc. that are all…",{"value":140,"source":100,"evidence":141},"Deepfake and security abuse concerns",[142,146],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"23965988","searchableguy","That's super cool. 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