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It's amazing how many think declaring something illegal will stop criminally-minded people having and using it.
It won't stop it, but will allow enforcement agencies to enforce. Otherwise, they have no legal recourse to do so.
Why should the ability to impersonate a persons voice suddenly become a crime in itself?
Should we arrest Jim Carrey?
Isn't it when the thing was used to do something else illegal when enforcement is required?
The world is going to become a much worse place over the next few years. I want to be an optimist, but it will take huge leaps in humanity's societal structures for AI not to be a net negative for the vast majority of people on this planet in the short term.
AI is just one threat and there are others. Regardless of whether or not COVID-19 was man made, it could have been, and it's just the first of what will be many pandemics in the next few decades. Barrier to entry for genetic engineering and bioweaponry is lower than ever, and within the reach of hobbyists or NGOs.
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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.
yeah because that's working great for crypto lol
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I'm honestly a bit baffled at the lack of thought here. Anything written can be listened to with this tech. Any news article, any short story, a draft of a piece of writing you're working on. There is too much text for human beings to read it all. Translating from one medium to another is extremely useful.
Stop being lazy It is faster to read than to listen to something
Listening to the demos I'm not entirely convinced by this ( https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny). I wonder if this company will end up taking down (and subsequently pricing out most people using this tech for fun) arbitrary voice generation just like its competitors have so far. Going to the demo page and hearing a random snippet of Musk-worship was pretty weird. Out of all audio tracks to place at…
I recommend you immediately add identity verification (state-issued identification verification), set up appropriate secrets store for PII, and audit trail EVERYTHING your users are doing, storing the contents in a secure location. Yesterday. This service will be used to harm others, shortly. I do think that there are exciting, honest things that can be done with this service but you need to set up some friction for…
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It's an effort to prevent abuse. We previously asked users to pay upfront but most people want to try it out first.
I would mention something to that effect in the modal because it wasn't clear to me why it was asking for card details at that point for "$0.00/mo" (though I guessed the reason). Maybe something like "To prevent abuse, we require card details, but you won't be charged", but worded better.
"no matter what based on your usage/you are locked into the free tier" would have helped for sure
i still would've bounced because i just wanted to goof off with it quickly while it captured my attention and requiring a payment method is just... terrible friction to capture users being able to quickly test one of the key features you advertise, but i guess if fraud concerns are that bad, that's the tradeoff you have to accept?
Useless. Try training it on non US voices. I speak English, not American and the generate voice sounded nothing like me. By the way, I was SVP Engineering at a voice modification company.
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There are some cool uses like dubbing movies in foreign languages while keeping the original "voice styles" or having your long dead relatives talking to you in some memorabilia etc. It could also cause unexpected creativity explosion e.g. in games or fan fiction movies. To avoid misuses we might perhaps find the only good use of blockchain.
About the blockchain comment… For years, I’ve been expecting camera makers (including phone makers) to offer image hash verification on blockchain at the moment of image capture. I’m surprised it’s not routine.
2. Requires internet
3. What image do you verify? Between auto-retouching, manual retouching, compression, filetype conversion, an image file might be invisibly transformed 10 times in between capture and Instagram upload.
4. Useless for disproving fake images until every camera manufacturer in the world has implemented this.
5. Hostile to customers, now your picture doesn't get the green verified badge or whatever if you decide to crop it or something.
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There are some cool uses like dubbing movies in foreign languages while keeping the original "voice styles" or having your long dead relatives talking to you in some memorabilia etc. It could also cause unexpected creativity explosion e.g. in games or fan fiction movies. To avoid misuses we might perhaps find the only good use of blockchain.
>long dead relatives talking to you in some memorabilia etc. It seems a bit weird to me though. I mean, looking back at old records can still pass as mere nostalgic behavior. Wanting new sentences pronounced in disguise of lost relative voices is not great in term of respect for these people to share my own feelings. Also I guess that now there is not much preventing completely new songs with whatever lyrics staring…