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Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by gosub100 »

ljm wrote: post #78
mechhacker wrote: post #56

When I see a lot of this voice replication I am reminded of something. (Dune series spoiler) For example, Duncan Idaho keeps being brought back with cloning tech, over and over, for centuries, because Leto II just likes him. Over and over, the same man keeps being put by the (nearly) immortal emperor's side... I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?…

I feel like the novelty will wear off sooner or later. I certainly got bored of doing "X but as Y" pretty fast.

I'm excited to see the first brand new content from an existing series. I really love the 80's cartoon Inspector Gadget. There are about 100 episodes and they are all pretty repetitive (so hopefully easy to train AI with). I would be enthralled if someone could create new episodes with:

- AI generated storyline

- Deepfake the original actors voices

- Deepfake the animation, which should(?) be easier (more realistic) than the video deepfakes.

This could be so cool, "hey AI, make an Inspector Gadget espisode where the dog gets lost in the forest and Uncle Gadget eats magic mushrooms he finds while trying to find him"

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by throwaway4aday »

mechhacker wrote: post #56

When I see a lot of this voice replication I am reminded of something. (Dune series spoiler) For example, Duncan Idaho keeps being brought back with cloning tech, over and over, for centuries, because Leto II just likes him. Over and over, the same man keeps being put by the (nearly) immortal emperor's side... I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?…

On the short term, yes. On the longer term (probably only a year or two at this rate) no because these models also allow you to generate entirely new voices. We'll likely see features like describing the voice you want with a prompt and getting several to choose from, remixing existing voices, combining voices and creating voices that are impossible for any human to have. The introduction of other forms of recording and reproduction didn't result in total monocultures, even music which gets a bad rap for all sounding the same only has this problem in the mainstream, scratch the surface and you'll find hundreds of weird new genres and styles.

We could see a future where every commercial is narrated by Attenborough or Freeman but indie creators will be pumping out vast quantities of wild interpretations and new applications of the human voice.

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by DeIlliad »

nurple wrote: post #72

Even though it is going to be extremely painful, one thing that excites me most about AI is the distinct possibility that it obliterates the concept of artificial scarcity that so much of the world relies on to create money these days. IMO, AI is exposing the frail and unnatural aspect of this legally-protected rent seeking. No, I don't think the legal system will be able to keep up, and I also don't think the infoli…

Using the phrase "artificial scarcity" to describe someone's skills is ridiculous. A voice actor or artist being paid for their skills is not rent seeking.

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by purpleflame1257 »

galdosdi wrote: post #66
mechhacker wrote: post #56

When I see a lot of this voice replication I am reminded of something. (Dune series spoiler) For example, Duncan Idaho keeps being brought back with cloning tech, over and over, for centuries, because Leto II just likes him. Over and over, the same man keeps being put by the (nearly) immortal emperor's side... I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?…

This reminds me of something I noticed: disproportionately, the classics in a given field (ie, the work agreed upon to be particularly important, influential, etc) are disproportionately the ones that were made shortly after a new medium or technique was invented. For example, It's almost as if we default to tending towards imitation and recycling, and only each time a totally new technology changes what is possible…

I'm not sure that's true. Look at the printing press. Sure, Shakespeare is a classic, but most of the rest of what we read as "classics" probably centers around the mid-1800s (at least in English-speaking countries)

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by gosub100 »

petepete wrote: post #75
curiousObject wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This demonstration is respectful. It’s funny. It’s obvious parody. But, the tech can be used to make disrespectful content. Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn. I don’t know what we can do. Ain’t no easy answers. But do we want courts and $Lawyers deciding what is respectful?

Or Attenborough attributing the wonders of the planet to a god.

A great SaaS idea! It subtly injects "glory to the creator" type messages in existing science documentaries, for consumption by faith-based institutions.

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by alexdunmow »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #12

I loved this when he posted it. Taking this a step further, and being facetious, I'm thinking of starting my own network! It's all me, all the time. Sometimes I'll be a nature show, sometimes I'll be in a spy movie, sometimes I'll have the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 cracking jokes at how dumb I am. Can't be that hard to do what this guy did, only in twenty-four different genres, one for each hour of the d…

I have a feeling your API costs would definitely creep up quicker than you realise...

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by coldacid »

purpleflame1257 wrote: post #84
galdosdi wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of something I noticed: disproportionately, the classics in a given field (ie, the work agreed upon to be particularly important, influential, etc) are disproportionately the ones that were made shortly after a new medium or technique was invented. For example, It's almost as if we default to tending towards imitation and recycling, and only each time a totally new technology changes what is possible…

I'm not sure that's true. Look at the printing press. Sure, Shakespeare is a classic, but most of the rest of what we read as "classics" probably centers around the mid-1800s (at least in English-speaking countries)

Shakespeare was about a century and a half after Gutenberg.

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Post by galdosdi »

purpleflame1257 wrote: post #84
galdosdi wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of something I noticed: disproportionately, the classics in a given field (ie, the work agreed upon to be particularly important, influential, etc) are disproportionately the ones that were made shortly after a new medium or technique was invented. For example, It's almost as if we default to tending towards imitation and recycling, and only each time a totally new technology changes what is possible…

I'm not sure that's true. Look at the printing press. Sure, Shakespeare is a classic, but most of the rest of what we read as "classics" probably centers around the mid-1800s (at least in English-speaking countries)

Yes, that's exactly some of the time periods I was thinking of. The mid 1800s was a time when literacy was rapidly increasing and new serial magazines became popular. This new medium paved the way for the fame of authors like Dickens and Bronte, the sort you may be thinking of.
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