Interesting. Very weird.
Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman
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Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman
#12I was interested when Feynman pushed back on the laziness of the opening question - seems like a very Feynman thing to do - so I was interested.
The follow up question, though, snuck in a lie - "you went to UC Berkeley for two years." That property of these interviews seems dangerous, and likely to implant false factoids in people's heads.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
You never get to close pandora's box. The only choice you have is how to decide to adapt to the new reality. Whining into the void about the new reality isn't adaptation. It's weakness.
This is such an insane worldview. Lots of things are technically possible but socially or legally discouraged. You could infringe copyright. You could steal. You could walk around naked. It's not whining to say that something is outside of social norms.
When it's trivially easy to break the law and there are no obvious victims, and it can be done on computers, those rules go out the window.
Almost everyone who shared music on Napster would have never shoplifted a CD from a record store. Almost everyone who shares TV episodes on Bittorrent would never have stolen a DVD from a store or climbed up a power pole to illegally tap into cable.
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#14a bit too real and now i m learning all the false factoids about feynman. I hope i never remember them. i guess if i let it play too long, it will be forever a memory. next time i watch a video of feynman i will see him as a very ramblingman
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
In all earnestness - why? It's not like anyone would be fooled into thinking this was real. What's the harm?
> It's not like anyone would be fooled into thinking this was real. What's the harm? You are grossly overestimating the collective intelligence of people on the Internet and yes this also includes the "wittier" Lex Fridman audience.
~~also~~ especially
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#16this is fucked up manufacturing content from the voices/faces of prominent people that have died is no bueno fuck podcast.ai
I also think it's kind of pointless as anything other than a demonstration of the speech synthesis (which is getting pretty good). The Feynman character especially shows that while these models can pick up a bunch of the details about the surface style, they certainly can't be clever or insightful, which is the appeal of the people being imitated.
With respect to using the voices or faces of dead people, I do think it's interesting that the estates of the deceased can have some control over commercial uses of personal images. The estate of MLK I think still controls use of the whole audio from some of his famous speeches. But my understanding is we haven't yet settled whether synthetic / derived artifacts which rely heavily on existing photos or recordings should themselves be controlled in the same way.
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#17I was interested when Feynman pushed back on the laziness of the opening question - seems like a very Feynman thing to do - so I was interested. The follow up question, though, snuck in a lie - "you went to UC Berkeley for two years." That property of these interviews seems dangerous, and likely to implant false factoids in people's heads.
Yeah I commented on this on the last thread by this company on here, but it's like literally a demo of a fake news / misinformation machine. Content that sounds stylistically like the parroted speakers but is just factually incorrect or misrepresentative of what the speakers would likely say.
I guess if the point is to demo the pure technical achievement it's maybe cool but there needs to be a huge 'misinfo' disclaimer plastered literally everywhere that it's for entertainment, although even then people could just rip the audio and repost it and pretend it was real.
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#18this is fucked up manufacturing content from the voices/faces of prominent people that have died is no bueno fuck podcast.ai
You never get to close pandora's box. The only choice you have is how to decide to adapt to the new reality. Whining into the void about the new reality isn't adaptation. It's weakness.
It will likely eventually be possible to create bioweapons like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo, but we would still condemn someone for doing so, your statement makes literally no sense.
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#19This is amazing.
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#20I think it's important that this makes it clear that this is fake. The title here is 100% a lie.
At least, it should be "AI Generated Fake Lex Fridman interviews Fake Richard Feynman."
Have some self-respect.