RIP Dan Castellaneta.
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
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Re: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "Obama" material sounded quite good, but reverb can cover up a multitude of sins...
Huh. That means that recordings of speeches/performances from concert halls are potentially suspicious. Know of any other instances of reverb covering things up? This is interesting!
> "potentially suspicious"
History is now doomed. Crackly recordings are obviously fakeable. Children will listen to JFK's "We shall not go to the moon" speech, proof that the moon landings are a liberal conspiracy and all that grainy footage is just CGI with a noise filter.
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#173This is fucking terrifying.
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#174Funny thing is, this is approximately where CIA was with similar technology in closer to 2000. They did some demos for politicians about how they can given anyone's fake their messages. That stuff is golden for propaganda means, and for confusing stuff like military chains of command. Today the CIA probably has worked out all the robotic artifacts already, and their output is really indistinguishable.
Re: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
#175Funny thing is, this is approximately where CIA was with similar technology in closer to 2000. They did some demos for politicians about how they can given anyone's fake their messages. That stuff is golden for propaganda means, and for confusing stuff like military chains of command. Today the CIA probably has worked out all the robotic artifacts already, and their output is really indistinguishable.
NNets just recently got really good. You are correct though, politicians would love this.
I believe technology would make a Judge's life really hard.
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#176So much potential for mischief!!
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#177I see a lot of people claiming that certain things will now be untrustworthy.
As if human voice imitators have not existed and could not be paid for prior to this. For $5 you can get Stewie Griffin [0] or Barack Obama [1] to say whatever you want them to say. Any audio-only messages of well known figures should already be considered "compromised" and untrustworthy. Even without the technology to impersonate them.
This should be more concerning for "normal people". It isn't that you can no longer trust an audio-only recording of Obama, but that you may not longer be certain an audio recording is from your best friend. (E: Once the technology improves a bit more of course.)
[0] https://www.fiverr.com/joe_stevens/talk-like-stewie-griffin-...
[1] https://www.fiverr.com/celebimpression/do-a-custom-barack-ob...
Re: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
#178Great stuff ! Respect from the 514.
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#179A bit scary thinking someone could do this with ease.
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#180Combined with Face2Face[1] live video impersonation, it is truly time to be very careful verifying videos or even live streams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
Woah that's kinda scary. What could we do to determine if a video is legitimate or not?