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nice voting ring you got there
Are the founder's names causing you panic? can't you appreciate a good startup?
Personally, this sounds like an extremely irresponsible startup, but I don't know much about it so I'm trying to reserve judgement.
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?
When I tried this service previously, you had to read (out loud) something saying that you were giving consent.
Probably not something we'll get to hear as part of the PR pitch.
Or is the consent statement the thing that will be cloned and is there no separate training audio? Then it might actually work and you'll just have to get close enough that the human you're trying to fool can't distinguish anymore (defeating the need for this tech in the first place, at least in targeted rather than automated cases).
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?
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?
TIL, the Booth Junkie is on HN. Love your work, sir.
This is a good reminder that we all need to have a "safe word" that we can use to verify to the important people in our life that the voice they may be hearing on the phone or elsewhere is really us. Get a panicky call from "me" in the middle of the night? If I don't include my safe word, that call isn't from me.
I'm having a hard time coming up with a non-nefarious use case for this.
Voice generator tech has created some decent surreal memes (like audio recordings of Biden, Obama, and Trump playing video games together). Outside of memes or maybe the occasional well-intentioned prank, I really can't think of anything either.
https://play.ht/app/voice-cloning > Clone a voice now Pops a modal: Try Voice Cloning for Free! Enter a credit card for $0.00/mo with no other information on screen Bounce. Why not let me play around with it a little without asking for a credit card?
I think if you are cloning voices, you should be required to have a credit card or some other KYC identifier. Even if it's free. This kind of highly abusable tech should have a paper trail IMO.