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AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by kordlessagain »

hans1729 wrote: post #22
Lordarminius wrote: post #12

AI can make decisions, create deep fakes, and now, clone voices. It may be that the next big business opportunity lies in creating 'anti-AI' technology just as it did with antiviruses in the 90's and 2000's

Good luck with that. The best product you'll come up with is some sort of snake oil. The whole point of GANs is that you can't really "detect" the synthesized components anymore. Not that this would/will stop people from claiming otherwise in the spirit of profitablity :-)

GANs may produce imagery or audio which fools humans, but they are unlikely to consistently produce imagery or audio which fools humans over time.

Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by VBprogrammer »

werds wrote: post #24

Anybody else notice how that Scottish male reference voice sounds considerably more English in the synthesized versions.

Yeah, maybe it's just having a more sensitive ear to the Scottish accent but that to me was the furthest from the reference by far.

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Post by pcmaffey »

Lordarminius wrote: post #12

AI can make decisions, create deep fakes, and now, clone voices. It may be that the next big business opportunity lies in creating 'anti-AI' technology just as it did with antiviruses in the 90's and 2000's

AI that detects AI seems entirely plausible. And like all “anti” measures, is another arms race (and if I put my scifi hat on, is what may lead to AI self-awareness).

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Post by AbbasHaiderAli »

Wow, impressive results! Already a few examples in the comments of what bad actors could do this tech. I wanted to share an example of something good.

I lost my dad about 6 years ago after a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and a 3 month rapid diagnosis. I have some, but not a lot of video content of him from over the years. My mom still misses him terribly so for her 60th birthday I tried to splice together an audio message and greeting from her saying what I thought he would have said.

The work was rough and nowhere near what this Google project could produce. She listens to that poor facsimile every year for her birthday. It's therapeutic for her. With some limits for her mental health of course, I'm sure she would love to hear my dad again with this level of fidelity.

And so would I.

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