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This is also how swatting works: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8be/torswats-computer-gen...
I don't understand how the phone systems allow for anonymous phone calls. Is it because of virtual telephone services? It feels like they should be required by law to follow KYC regulations like banks do.
The one thing that I want from all this AI voice stuff is better selection of voice for the siris and alexas out there. i.e. Ability to clone some's voice onto an assistant Some voices are just more pleasant than others & it differs by person doing the listening
Also not just voice synthesis, but the word output should also be modeled after the character. E.g., [alarm 7:30] -> "It's 7:30, wake up you stupid son of a bitch!"
Fantastic execution. The generating dialogue I understand; how did they get the voices so incredibly lifelike?! Where do I start when I want text to speech like this?!
I never would have guessed computers writing code would come before generating convincing voices.
Personally I love this new AI voice content booms. My favorite is the AI presidents discussing/playing/rating stuff [1], Attenborough narrating warhammer [2]. While slightly silly, I think in future people might start to take internet way less serious when you can literally make things up. Which I think is a good trend. People getting depressed or so consumed by the internet culture that they loose all interest in th…
The one thing that I want from all this AI voice stuff is better selection of voice for the siris and alexas out there. i.e. Ability to clone some's voice onto an assistant Some voices are just more pleasant than others & it differs by person doing the listening
We know you want the Trump voice. Also not just voice synthesis, but the word output should also be modeled after the character. E.g., [alarm 7:30] -> "It's 7:30, wake up you stupid son of a bitch!"
Personally I love this new AI voice content booms. My favorite is the AI presidents discussing/playing/rating stuff [1], Attenborough narrating warhammer [2]. While slightly silly, I think in future people might start to take internet way less serious when you can literally make things up. Which I think is a good trend. People getting depressed or so consumed by the internet culture that they loose all interest in th…
The would be great. Finally a return to the old ways.
"I have read about it on the internet" was a meme for a reason...
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> a more local, trust-less internet like we had in the 90s and early 00s I don't recognize this description of the Internet from any time after 1985 onward.
"More local" may not be the perfect description. When I wrote it I was thinking of things like AIM where, for the most part, you knew everyone you were interacting with. The more I think about it, there were plenty of chatrooms and forums at that time though, so yeah, probably not a good word to use. I think "trust-less" is more what I'm getting at though. In the 90s and early 00s the whole, "don't reveal anything pe…
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> a more local, trust-less internet like we had in the 90s and early 00s I don't recognize this description of the Internet from any time after 1985 onward.
This might just be a way of aging ourselves. I do feel that Facebook blatantly flipped the norm that you used a pseudonym and kept personal information private when communicating (much less publishing) online - that's the norm I grew up with in the 90s and even the early 00s.
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> I think in future people might start to take internet way less serious when you can literally make things up I've been starting to think this way as well. It feels like we're seeing something similar to the way that mass spam calls drastically changed the way people use the phones to the point where people don't recognize a phone number, they just don't pick up anymore. As the ratio of garbage goes up, people will…
Trust-less information was the norm for most of history. The past century has really been an anomaly when it came to trusting news, with photos and videos seeming to be reliable proof. Before that, societies had to be structured very differently to account for the lack of proof. You'd hear people from out of town talking about what they saw in a neighboring city. You'd need to judge how trustworthy the person was. Pe…