Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dralley » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 3:02 PM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #172

Quoting another user from an adjacent topic[0]; I for myself believe in 1., it seems generative AI tools is slowly becoming popular as lesser substitute to human arts, wherever there has to be data but any noise will do. No one listened to low-effort Text-to-Speech content pre-AI, some did for high-effort TTS content, and in neither case it was because the quality of synthesis was bad or good. > I think Max Tegmark s…

Option 1b) it will work "well enough", cheaply enough, that it replaces human interaction in a number of places despite making the experience worse.

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

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Post by throwaway4aday » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 5:00 PM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #185

throwaway4aday wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

they're on the what, 56th marvel movie? novelty seems to be entirely about consumptive selection. humans crave familiarity.

That's basically what I said? Mainstream content will generally play it safe and still sell but there will be ever larger numbers of independent creators pushing the envelope.

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

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Post by Lacerda69 » Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 8:11 PM UTC

Fluorescence wrote: post #95

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?…

Attempts at cloning are often the dirty secret behind much lauded creativity. I like the stories of unique art/music that was created because someone was trying to clone something exactly... but despite their best effort, they just couldn't get it right and ended inventing something new that people loved anyway. We just have to make sure we are pretty bad at the cloning!

everything in culture is based on previous work and sampling; it has nothing to do with cloning.

If you can't speak the language of your field you can't produce something original. you have to master the basics first aka emulate others aka learn the language before you can become creative.

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

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Post by webmaven » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 4:30 AM UTC

NikkiA wrote: post #159

optimalsolver wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always though that "Duncan Idaho" is the silliest name in all of science fiction.

Sillier than 'Hero Protagonist'? e: or Ford Prefect ?

"Hiro", not "Hero".

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

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Post by webmaven » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 4:39 AM UTC

curiousObject wrote: post #41

losvedir wrote: post #35

Someone at work shared this and I thought it was hilarious and awesome. A number of other people found it disrespectful or gross. I'm sort of fascinated at the values divide. I can see why SAG/ASTRA, or voice actors, aren't going to like this technology, but it doesn't feel all that different to any other industry swept away by tech, whether that's farming, horses and carriages, mining, etc. In other words, I can see…

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?

"> Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.*

Note that this basic idea was previously realized as the 1999 movie "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human" starring Carmen Electra and narrated by David Hyde Pierce.