And just as my bank offers a "login via speaking" option. Lovely.
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
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#2021. Is this company new?
2. Is this better then what Google or Baidu are doing?
3. I remember reading Adobe has something similar.
4. Why ( What happened ) that all of a sudden we have 4 company making voice breakthrough tech like these?
5. What Happen to Voice Acting? Places like Japan where they highly value voice actor. Is Voice even patentable?
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#203This is pretty basic at the moment and it's terrifying. Yeah, it has an MS Sam feel to it, but as the tech improves and we know it will, you could use a service like this to put words in someone's mouth. Think about how you could trip up a CEO or a Politician by playing some random clip that they never said. When that gets into the Zeitgeist judgments will be made in the court of public opinion devoid of facts or rea…
I don't think the tech will improve fast. I've been watching speech synthesis since the 80s, and progress hasn't accelerated over that time. Speech synthesis is one of those 90% problems - when you're 90% done, you find you only have 90% left to do. This level of synthesis is relatively easy. Getting to the 'Can reliably pass for the real thing" level is going to take a huge amount of extra work. It's not even about…
I think you over estimate the complexity and required work to get to virtual impersonation. This will be a problem sooner than you think.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This idea hit me harder than I expected -- I am reminded of the scene in Interstellar, where the main character's daughter's teacher asserts that we never went to the moon. I don't recall whether she genuinely didn't believe it, or whether she felt it was better to lie to the kids to keep them motivated in the present, but apparently we are getting much closer to having gatekeepers of knowledge be able to actively subvert the artifacts of history in ways which are indistinguishable to the audience. Scary stuff.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
We already couldn't trust anything a politician said! But indeed, this is the moral equivalent of how Photoshop has nearly undermined photographic evidence. That leaves video, and it's starting to succumb. Synthetic video AI politician, well, Robert Heinlein wrote _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ in 1966.
> Photoshop has nearly undermined photographic evidence No it hasn't, not at all.
> No it hasn't, not at all.
What do you mean? it most certainly has.
It is much harder to look at a photograph now and say for sure it's real. Before photoshop, there were ways of manipulating photos, but they were much harder and did not yield nearly as good results. You can photoshop people into photos they were not originally in, doing things they have never done. Even Trump is having his hands enlarged in photos.
Maybe you're speaking specifically about "evidence" in the legal sense. I can't speak to that. But there are countless examples where you can't (and shouldn't) believe what you see, because it's not real.
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#207Finally, I can have Morgan Freeman narrate my major life events.
Update: Reading changelogs before deployment never sounded better!
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Photoshop has nearly undermined photographic evidence No it hasn't, not at all.
> No it hasn't, not at all. What do you mean? it most certainly has. It is much harder to look at a photograph now and say for sure it's real. Before photoshop, there were ways of manipulating photos, but they were much harder and did not yield nearly as good results. You can photoshop people into photos they were not originally in, doing things they have never done. Even Trump is having his hands enlarged in photos.…
Certainly it raises the bar for skepticism, but I can think of relatively few cases where a photoshopped image has driven a news cycle/key event because someone famous/important believed it to be real.
Most doctored images/videos get snuffed out by the media very quickly if they grow viral.
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#209Linda Tripp approves
Please post civilly and substantively on HN or not at all.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "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.
This idea hit me harder than I expected -- I am reminded of the scene in Interstellar, where the main character's daughter's teacher asserts that we never went to the moon. I don't recall whether she genuinely didn't believe it, or whether she felt it was better to lie to the kids to keep them motivated in the present, but apparently we are getting much closer to having gatekeepers of knowledge be able to actively su…
There have always been Gate Keepers to knowledge. Technology is in many ways blasted down these gates for many.