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Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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Fictional characters, sure. Real people? That's crossing a line. I believe I own myself, and manipulating my face and voice to say what I did not and never would say is a misuse of my property. I can't fully justify that belief, but I would certainly be enraged beyond reason to see a representation of my principled father speaking against his values.

I think that some real people (public persons) are ready to see/hear that someone mocks them, and the rest is not ready for such attention. It’s interesting that our voices and appearances are not unique. I knew people who look or sound like me or like someone else, but when it becomes “and”, we read it as an indentity theft or something like that. We are not far from calls and records to be signed by personal identity keys and fingerprints included into id documents, because otherwise it would be hard to recognize who is who.

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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It's worth mentioning that one similar site is 15.ai[1] [1] https://15.ai

15.ai was the original, in a lot of regards. I used to chat with the dude on 4chan, he was a genuinely intelligent (albeit rather socially awkward) guy, and a bit of a perfectionist at that. The downside was that there was always downtime and a few hidden servers floating around. The upside was... almost perfect voice synthesis, even a year ago.

> I used to chat with the dude on 4chan, he was a genuinely intelligent (albeit rather socially awkward) guy, and a bit of a perfectionist at that.

Funny, I just wrote about this type of encounter with exceptional talented people with similar results, and while I didn't detail it in the response, several of those were from those I met on 4chan from 2005-2015 (I checked out after gamergate as it got toxic and less fun).

I hadn't seen 15.ai but its pretty accurate from what I played with. I wonder if he'd be open to see how he trains his algo (deepthroat) with the data sets he gets. He seems to not care about making money from this, or IP and hates NFTs so this would be a good indication he might be up for it.

Sidenote: Also, did you just out yourself as pony*** (brony)?

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

#55
Tested it with voices "singing" Praise You by Fatboy Slim. Here are the results:

Alan Rickman: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:hsrgb9haeqff63s966e42m7dnq...

Bernie Sanders: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:e7b02rgxqzrmfkavrn0pr39jsg...

Snoop Dogg: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:kn2yaam78wq03d2w53xfd0kcvq...

Morgan Freeman: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:msxvghpkzs7942vkdfhmxjg2bs...

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

#56

This is amazing! I wish there was some kind of notation to help generate intended inflection and emphasis. Like or /s tags Here is my bojack. What are youuuu doing here is read flat and funny! suck a D dumb S sounds decent though. https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:n45c3yyjwrg3fqbdcxfpn3xrac...

Yes, notation seems to be critical. I wanted to see how well it can recreate the training data; so I picked Kyle from South Park and put in "they killed Kenny". I assume this should be in the training set, being a running theme in the show. The inference puts it in a question-like tone, not like the original.

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If I ever end up paralysed and unable to speak, you bet your ass I'm talking like Ned Flanders to everyone. That's funny. What was the sentence you typed if you don't mind me asking? I had subpar results with 50 cent, chosen randomly, and very NSFW language, but also Obama with "My fellow Americans" was strange. I wonder how they're training and improving the models. I work on a product that could help them train/t…

This got me thinking that it would be nice to have some sort of recursive processing in which if you say, that Flanders is personalizing Obama, then when you quote "My fellow Americans", you should hear an attempt of Flanders saying that the Obama's way. A way to detect fake voices, I guess :P

What would be sweet is a voice changer, where you can record yourself talking and it changes it to sound like one of those characters. That way you can intonate and say things less robotically.
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