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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 hold…
The malign applications of this technology greatly outweigh the benign. Discuss.
I'm currently working by myself on a game that will likely launch without voice acting (text only) because I don't have the money or skill to find and pay voice actors. If I could act out the dialog myself and then purchase or generate voices other than my own to overlay on top of those performances, the quality and accessibility of my finished product would go up dramatically. That would also open up the door for mo…
It will be interesting to see if these made-up AI voices can deliver jokes with the same tonality and delivery as good comedians can. I'm just a layman but it feels like a hard problem to solve.
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 hold…
What it is doing is not really cloning, but because it was trained on 18k different voices, it actually finds one that is closest to yours, and uses that one. It can do a bit of interpolation to create an embedding which is closer to your own, but only if it is well represented by a mix of other voices. Real voice cloning like at https://replicastudios.com/ can take just a minute or two of audio, and it does a fairly…
At first glance there seems to be more more malicious uses than good ones with voice. Yes, hearing someone dear to me say things he/she never said maybe comforting. Anything else? Maybe some movies with the deceased actor's voice? But what if someone who wants to hurt me sends me files (or phone calls) from the deceased person saying horrible things like: - "I am still alive but left as I was tired of you" - "oh Jan,…
It doesn't have to be about creating audio of specific text with 's voice; it can be much more about creating audio of specific text with a wide variety of believable people's voices. I could see this, if it becomes commercially viable, potentially being a huge boon to indie game creation, for instance, since hiring a load of voice actors to record the dialogue for an entire game is vastly more expensive than, say, h…
We're currently working on using voice AI to create real products over at https://replicastudios.com
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
Better provenance is the way to guard against fakes. For video and audio, I imagine a combination of hardware signing, perhaps with the camera itself living on an isolated, Secure Enclave-like chip, and sending hashes of (incoming images/video * deviceID * trustedTimestamp) to a blockchain or some other public distributed ledger. Getting the timestamp from a service that keeps its own record adds further security. Th…
In a couple of years we won't be able to trust any media. I wonder what the cultural implications will be, much like photoshopped models and actors have change the beauty ideals.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and the likes, will then be able to let users know what is using real (actual real voices, or the authenticated Replica voice) or fake voices.
—Oppenheimer