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Re: 15.ai

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deeplearner1 wrote: post #120
15ai wrote: post #115

Hello. I made this. I'm a bit shocked at how many people are getting things wrong and taking things out of context, so perhaps I could answer some questions. To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own…

Do you still plan to publish your research in a paper?

Yes, I do. For the past three years, I have done nothing but work on this project nonstop. I've been working on massive improvements (that some have pointed out in this thread) that I've been stuck on for the past several months, but I'm getting close to finishing that up.

I don't feel comfortable publishing or releasing anything until I know for a fact that I can make no further improvements. It's not out of corporate greed or anything like that - I'm just really paranoid about getting out the best work possible.

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VanTheBrand wrote: post #92

The disclaimer is a little ironic considering the site owner doesn’t own the model (MIT does) and doesn’t own the training data (the various shows and games do)

I'm sorry to tell you that I do, in fact, own my own model. I have not been with MIT in years.

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eljimmy wrote: post #13

This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.

Twilight Sparkle's voice is indispensable in getting emotional contextualizers to work properly. The logo and profile picture is an homage to that fact.

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noobermin wrote: post #85
deeplearner1 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Make money”? The creator loses several thousands of dollars a month hosting the site, and it’s done for free. The Patreon donations are all voluntary and only offer a pittance to the developer. I highly suggest reading into the project first. The Wiki article I linked before ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai ) answers all of your questions about copyright infringement.

I heavily doubt it's "several thousands of dollars"...

It is indeed several thousands of dollars a month. I can show you AWS invoices, if you're skeptical. Just send me an email and I'd be happy to show proof.

Re: 15.ai

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armchairhacker wrote: post #2

This is really cool. It's a text-to-speech and the gist seems to be that they synthesize it from only a little audio. The results are clearly synthetic and need work. However what's cool is that there are a ton of characters (from popular shows and video games) and there are useful statistics like inferred emotion (which is also in the output). Honestly it's a big problem how a lot of AIs are like "black boxes" where…

>But seriously: how did you get the domain `15.ai`?

I purchased it. It was definitely not cheap.

Re: 15.ai

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Post by alexb_ »

neilv wrote: post #80
hojjat12000 wrote: post #9

They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?

I came back to the HN comments to ask the same thing, when I saw that. I think this is kinda edgy humor that can work in small, select groups. But maybe in most contexts in which people will be looking at AI method tech demos (e.g., within a company, or researchers at a university), we're still feeling ongoing effects of multi-generational injustices. In such a context, no one wants to be associating to ideas of wome…

Imagine being so uptight that you see a harmless joke, get mad about it, make many assumptions about a person that you've never met, and not only tell them to change it but give them a deadline to do so.

Re: 15.ai

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_gabe_ wrote: post #100
folkrav wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it.

This is from the MIT license, which is the school he's doing research for (emphasis mine): > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction , including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Softwa…

This is my fault. I do see how that part is worded ambiguously (I'll fix it later), but I have not been with MIT in years. Copy pasting what I've written in another comment:

To clarify: I have not been with MIT in years. I was paid the minimum hourly rate (roughly $14 an hour) to work on a related project during my undergraduate years, which eventually evolved into this project years down the road. (In fact, I had to pay for my own compute to get my work started - MIT never offered me any credits.)

And to address the philosophy behind the MIT license (also copy pasted from another comment):

For the past three years, I have done nothing but work on this project nonstop. I've been working on massive improvements (that some have pointed out in this thread) that I've been stuck on for the past several months, but I'm getting close to finishing that up.

I don't feel comfortable publishing or releasing anything until I know for a fact that I can make no further improvements. It's not out of corporate greed or anything like that - I'm just really paranoid about getting out the best work possible.

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