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Wilt Chamberlain’s AI-generated ‘voice’ narrates Showtime’s warts-and-all doc ‘Goliath’

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Wilt Chamberlain shoots a layup in 1970.

Wilt Chamberlain passed away in 1999, and yet he’s the narrator of the three-part Showtime series “Goliath,” which does a comprehensive job of chronicling Chamberlain’s near-mythic status on and off the court.

Actually, that’s only partially accurate. Chamberlain’s own words, from recorded interviews to writings, are used in the narration — but it’s an artificial intelligence “voice” we’re hearing.

An opening graphic tells us:

“Wilt Chamberlain’s voice in this series is created using an AI program with the permission of the Wilt Chamberlain estate.