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

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Post by brandonjm »

pcmaffey wrote: post #37
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).

Typically the AI to detect the AI is exactly what they use to train networks like Deep Fake in the first place. GANs are effectively just a local arms race between two machine learning networks.

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Post by mcdoh »

AbbasHaiderAli wrote: post #39

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…

It could also be used for recreating voices for people that have lost theirs, like Roger Ebert. I think he benefited by having so much of his voice already recorded, this would make it much easier for regular people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMyxgSLESz8

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Post by ben_w »

blowski wrote: post #137
pmoriarty wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Philip K Dick wrote about people going to commune with artificial personality constructs of their deceased loved ones. Unfortunately, it's been a long time since I read it, so I don't remember which book it was in. Maybe someone who's read him more recently can remember. Update: Apparently, lots of other people wrote about this too, but PKD wrote about this before any of the ones mentioned so far, as he wrote about t…

There was also a Black Mirror episode.

It’s also present in the Revelation Space series, Neuromancer, Red Dwarf, and Star Trek.

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

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Post by ben_w »

nwsm wrote: post #119
ihm wrote: post #4

Reading this headline I begin to understand certain people’s worry about having their soul stolen upon being photographed.

Images of us can be sourced from any number of places: social media, government surveillance, private surveillance. Video less so but from the same sources. Audio from phone companies, VoIP services, surveillance, etc. Health data easily from a number of private companies if you use new-age "health" services, or less easily (illegally) from health records. Maybe we can find solace in the fact that is or will soon be…

“Don’t worry, just about anyone can steal your soul and there’s nothing you can practically do to stop it”

That doesn’t seem like a message of solace to me.

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

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Post by martin-adams »

daenz wrote: post #148
AbbasHaiderAli wrote: post #39

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…

I'm imagining Siri with the voice of your partner.

Yeah, you probably don't want to mixing up some habits of how you talk to a digital assistant and the person you love.

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Post by nradov »

AbbasHaiderAli wrote: post #39

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…

That was part of the original idea behind the Infibond start-up in Israel. Not clear how real it ever was.

https://sifted.eu/articles/infibond-investigation-israeli-st...

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Post by arkades »

I once got a call while I was lecturing some students. It was repeated three times in three minutes - I assumed it was an emergency and stepped out.

I was greeted by someone explaining that my father had caused a car accident, and they were calling on his behalf. That someone would need to send over some money for repairs or they’d call the police.

Sure.

They added that their cousin, the driver, is a parolee now holding my father at gunpoint. That if I don’t send them money to make them whole, they’ll kill my father.

This was super fishy, you know? But still, with things like “life of a loved one” at stake, it’s hard to call a bluff.

I can only imagine what I’d have done if I’d heard my fathers voice pleading for help. They might have been able to get any amount of money out of me.

Well, if my father hadn’t passed away nine months prior. They were not delighted to hear that.

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