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AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release

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Re: AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release

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Post by Paul-Craft »

zazazache wrote: post #10

What is the point of them trying to create this? That something like this would mostly be used to create disinformation and create chaos is easily understood before making something like this. Truly irresponsible

You're right, of course. Unfortunately, however, we're all just actors in a giant, multi-player, iterated Prisoner's Dilemma here. If I decide not to pursue human-level automated speech generation, or I end up developing it and don't release because it's "too dangerous," someone else will just come in behind me and take all that market share I could have captured.

It's like we're stuck in some movie that came out in 1994[0], or something. Except, in this version, everything is gonna up sooner or later, anyway. Might as well profit from it along the way, right?

Le sigh.

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[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111257/

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Post by abainbridge »

klowner wrote: post #14
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when the PlayStation 2 was "technically a supercomputer" and taking LSD a certain number of times made you insane? Great moments in marketing history

Oh yeah I vaguely recall news reports about how the PS2 was so powerful it could be used for missile guidance or some nonsense?

An article about that from 2000. https://www.theregister.com/2000/04/17/playstation_2_exports...

Brilliantly it says:

Register readers with very long memories indeed will recall similar concerns being raised over Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX-81. The fear then was that the sneaky Sovs would try to buy heaps of ZX-81s for their Zilog Z80-A CPUs and might 1KB RAM to upgrade their nuclear missile guidance systems.

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Post by BadHumans »

chx wrote: post #9

Things are progressing just as https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ predicted. > so 2024 will be the last human election and what we mean by that is not that it's just going to be an AI running as president in 2028 but that will really be although maybe um it will be you know humans as figureheads but it'll be Whoever greater compute power will win We saw already AI voices influencing elections in India https://restofworld.o…

Unfortunately in the US there is a political party that is attacking education and doesn't want people to learn critical thinking skills at a time when critical thinking is sorely needed. They happen to really "love the poorly educated" for some reason.

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Post by spywaregorilla »

I really want something that can do a voice change and match the emotion and articulation of a voice clip that I provide. I don't care (or want) it to be based off a real person and the manners in which they would tend to articulate a sentence. Are there any decent open models out there?

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Post by Liquix »

chx wrote: post #9

Things are progressing just as https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ predicted. > so 2024 will be the last human election and what we mean by that is not that it's just going to be an AI running as president in 2028 but that will really be although maybe um it will be you know humans as figureheads but it'll be Whoever greater compute power will win We saw already AI voices influencing elections in India https://restofworld.o…

classified tech is generally at least 10 years ahead of anything the public has access to. judging by how bizarre and polarizing the previous two US elections have been, i wouldn't be surprised if this prediction had already played out and we just didn't know it yet

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Post by devmor »

jd115 wrote: post #2

I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".

I would say that this take was correct, just not in the way the detractors at the time intended. The danger was to the usefulness of the internet.

I have yet to see any benefit to society from GPT's improvements, but I do see the internet quickly becoming more and more unusable due to the inundation of machine-generated spam on nearly every communications platform.

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Post by HeatrayEnjoyer »

zazazache wrote: post #10

What is the point of them trying to create this? That something like this would mostly be used to create disinformation and create chaos is easily understood before making something like this. Truly irresponsible

Move fast and break things (including organized society).

I can't even think of non malicious uses that are anything more than novelty or small conveniences. Meanwhile the malicious use cases are innumerable.

In a just world building this would be a severe felony, punished with prison and destruction of all of the direct and indirect source material.

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