Public Radio Host Sues Google for Recreating His Voice on NotebookLM

David Greene, a public radio veteran who has hosted NPR’s “Morning Edition” and KCRW’s political podcast “Left, Right & Center,” is suing Google, alleging that it violated his rights by building a product that replicated his voice without payment or permission, giving users the power to make it say things Greene would never say. The dispute involves NotebookLM, a language models trained on vast libraries of writing and speech by real humans who were never told their words and voices would be used in that way — raising profound questions of copyright and ownership.