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This is the first startup here where I think the tech should essentially be illegal. It's cool tech, yes I'm impressed at the achievement. Nuclear weapons are impressive too. OTOH this kind of thing is getting easier and easier to do, so what's a realistic way forward?
>Introducing the National Postal Service - send a letter to anyone for a nominal fee. No need for a personal courier, armed escort, or patrician status. >This is the kind of thing that should be illegal. Now, any Plebian could essentially write a letter to anyone, impersonating anyone. Forged letters could drag us into a war with Persia - for Jupiter's sake!
https://www.uspis.gov/history-spotlight/history-of-the-mail-...
Maybe we'll need a new specialized law enforcement agency like the Postal Inspectors to deal with the inevitable wave of AI-assisted crime.
Going to the demo page and hearing a random snippet of Musk-worship was pretty weird. Out of all audio tracks to place at the top of your demos, you chose this?
Seems like we'll sort of inevitably end up with a sort of cross-site verifiable identity on the internet. All content requiring some sort of verified user backing it. Generally will be interesting to see what an internet with less anonymity looks like.
It will be much more dangerous, in all probability.
How do you assert that the cloned voice has been truly permitted by the voice owner? I've had my voice cloned without my consent by other people using Descript and Eleven Labs. What is your process for verifying consent?
This is the first startup here where I think the tech should essentially be illegal. It's cool tech, yes I'm impressed at the achievement. Nuclear weapons are impressive too. OTOH this kind of thing is getting easier and easier to do, so what's a realistic way forward?
What if the voice sample is somebody saying they give specific consent to be cloned by that service? You could of course clone a voice to generate that "consent" -- but at that point there's no additional harm done because they'd already have the clone. It's unrealistic that this tech won't exist somewhere, even if the big actors stay away for ethical reasons. A voice auth practice strikes me as a good compromise.
I'm having a hard time coming up with a non-nefarious use case for this.
Outside of memes or maybe the occasional well-intentioned prank, I really can't think of anything either.