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It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes

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Re: It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes

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Post by owl57 »

blueridge wrote: post #2

I think he's right about this—things are going to get weird and ugly and people aren't prepared for what's coming. Here's my suggestion for safeguarding your sanity in the years ahead: find the people and the blogs you love, embrace RSS, block or avoid everything else, read old books, stop listening to podcasts, revert to email as the primary channel for occasional "social" correspondence, abandon all side projects t…

…go outside. This is the way.

Hmm. Thinking in this context… Wearing a helmet even in a room of friends looks like overkill from anti-surveillance perspective, but could be a good protection from deep fakes: someone could still record your face with a hidden camera, but it will be useless for fakes because no one knows it's you and on the other hand everyone knows you don't walk around bare face.

Re: It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes

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Post by rdedev »

geuis wrote: post #4

Once the generation times get to real-time, I dunno what's going to happen. I follow the voice acting community a lot and this is a big existential threat level of worry in that community. But I also see some positives for the narrative voice field, but at the expense of actual actors. The latest sequel to a favorite audio book series has the professional narrator pronouncing different character names and town names…

My guess would be for voice actors to copyright their voices. I am not familiar with the voice generation ML but i guess for things like dramatic pauses a voice actor might still be needed. Also I'm guessing it should be fairly straightforward to detect such copyright violations.

I would really like to see it implemented for heavy text driven rpgs. But overall yeah things look bad for voice actors in general

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Post by jareds »

Was anyone else not particularly impressed by this? I haven't listened to much Steve Jobs stuff but it sounded just stilted enough for me to think something was up. I'm not sure if it was because I came into it with a skeptical mindset because of the article and context around it. It also may be do to the fact that I have been using screen reading software for about 30 years. The only people who I've heard more then synthetic speech may be my close family and I'm not sure about that. Is there anywhere that offers a test where you have to determine what is generated and what is not with random clips lacking background info?

Re: It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes

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Post by hx833001 »

Teever wrote: post #13
rvz wrote: post #7

> It’s all fun and games in these demos, but this is inevitably going to be put to use by ratfuckers to create fake scandals in political campaigns...And it feels inevitable that a Roger Stone or Steve Bannon type will use this technology to commission, say, a recording of Joe Biden forgetting his own name... The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and all politicians are going to use this for their political…

Name the Roger Stone or Steve Bannon of the left.

Mark Elias. And the dozens of people who perpetrated a massive Russia collusion hoax on America so successfully that some people still don’t realize they were fooled into oblivion.
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