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The disclaimer is a little ironic considering the site owner doesn’t own the model (MIT does) and doesn’t own the training data (the various shows and games do)
It’s really strange reading these ignorant comments from HN…
> All code and models used for this website were written and trained as part of my research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The code and models are privately owned and are not to be sold or distributed for unauthorized use. Does anybody else find the irony in this statement absolutely amazing lol.
The author took someone else's IP as training data, trained a model on someone else's compute, and then gets extremely bent out of shape when others use the model without crediting them?
I don’t know why, but I honestly expected more from HN.
> All code and models used for this website were written and trained as part of my research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The code and models are privately owned and are not to be sold or distributed for unauthorized use. Does anybody else find the irony in this statement absolutely amazing lol.
In other words, if I deep fake someone's photo on someone else's body, I own the rights of that 'model'?
Oh god, 50 shades of SpongePants. The future is wild in ways I never imagined. Star Trek style holodecks in what, 15 years? So, creepy thought: should we be recording audio of our parents, so we can still "hear from them" once in a while after they die? People are going to want to reconstruct their lost loved ones with AI. This project seems to imply you only need an hour or so of audio.
After my dad died, we found that he had recorded every phone call he had with us. I thought about doing this combined with text generation to create plausible prompts but never got the guts to go through with it. He wouldn't care if I had done it, but it wouldn't ease the guilt from years of sighs and rolling my eyes when he called at always the wrong times.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...
To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own compute to get my work started - MIT never offered me any credits.) Everything else has been paid out of pocket since then. Yes, it does indeed cost several thousands of dollars a month - that is not an exaggeration. This has been optimized so many times that the technology needs to improve first before I can cut down on costs.
The timer in the "TOS" was put there in hopes that people could understand where I was coming from in regards to misappropriating this kind of research. I did not expect people to get this riled up over a 10 second timer. (Especially not on Hacker News, of all places...)
Edit: I suppose it makes sense to include other information in this post so that others don't have to go hunting for my comments in this thread:
- >This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
- Twilight Sparkle's voice is indispensable in getting emotional contextualizers to work properly. The logo and profile picture is an homage to that fact.
- >But seriously: how did you get the domain `15.ai`?
- I purchased it. It was definitely not cheap.
- >They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?
- It was a suggestion from a Twitter user, and I found it clever.
- >I heavily doubt it's "several thousands of dollars"...
- It is indeed several thousands of dollars a month. I can show you AWS invoices, if you're skeptical. Just send me an email and I'd be happy to show proof.
- >The disclaimer is a little ironic considering the site owner doesn’t own the model (MIT does) and doesn’t own the training data (the various shows and games do)
- I'm sorry to tell you that I do, in fact, own my own model. I have not been with MIT in years.
Hello. I made this. I'm a bit shocked at how many people are getting things wrong and taking things out of context, so perhaps I could answer some questions. To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own…
Hello. I made this. I'm a bit shocked at how many people are getting things wrong and taking things out of context, so perhaps I could answer some questions. To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own…
Do you still ban users from using different AI voices together?
> All code and models used for this website were written and trained as part of my research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The code and models are privately owned and are not to be sold or distributed for unauthorized use. Does anybody else find the irony in this statement absolutely amazing lol.
I appreciate the intent, and I understand that many people will do the wrong thing so this was probably an attempt to get such folks to actually read and adhere to the TOS, but the obnoxious consent dialog with a mandatory countdown turned me off. It’s probably not effective, either. On desktop, maybe I’d open dev tools and remove it. On mobile, I won’t be bothered. I hate that this is what the web has become and I c…
Hello. I made this. I'm a bit shocked at how many people are getting things wrong and taking things out of context, so perhaps I could answer some questions. To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own…