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Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by BudaDude »

subarctic wrote: post #29

Now that these deepfake interviews are getting posted regularly, they should have something in the title indicating that they are deepfakes / AI-generated. I thought this was an old interview with Richard Feynman that someone had found and posted, which would've been pretty cool, but instead it's just another one of these auto-generated interviews. (It being from podcast.ai was what gave it away since I saw the last…

You can also check the url. `.ai` subdomains are a pretty good indicator of the content you are about to consume.

Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by suby »

fuckstick wrote: post #35
subarctic wrote: post #29

Now that these deepfake interviews are getting posted regularly, they should have something in the title indicating that they are deepfakes / AI-generated. I thought this was an old interview with Richard Feynman that someone had found and posted, which would've been pretty cool, but instead it's just another one of these auto-generated interviews. (It being from podcast.ai was what gave it away since I saw the last…

Lex Fridman was born in 1983 and Feynman died in 1988, that's more obvious than Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan since although Rogan wasn't doing much in interviewing during Jobs' life, it's plausible since they are somewhat contemporaries.

This assumes everyone knows who Lex Fridman is. It seems reasonable to me that deepfake interviews be labeled as such.

Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by KennyFromIT »

hhmc wrote: post #30
ravenstine wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Necessarily? I'd assume a factoid has the potential to be either true or false.

By some original definition of the word they are necessarily false. Usage seems to have shifted to ‘small fact’ though

The common misunderstanding of the word `factoid` to mean "a small fact" is itself a factoid.

Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by thimkerbell »

apetresc wrote: post #3
6c737133 wrote: post #2

this is fucked up manufacturing content from the voices/faces of prominent people that have died is no bueno fuck podcast.ai

In all earnestness - why? It's not like anyone would be fooled into thinking this was real. What's the harm?

Clickbait. I was fooled by the title and would have listened.

Dan, if there is a way to demote deepfake fiction, a way that doesn't cause other problems, that would be great.

Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by fuckstick »

dqpb wrote: post #33
RobertDeNiro wrote: post #10

Is there any value to these? like its a cool tech demo, but they are mostly saying non sense.

They mostly don't say nonsense. I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing. I've never been able to listen all the way through AI generated content before. It's hard for me to believe this was 100% AI generated.

> I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing.

Eh? "Lex Fridman's" voice is shaky as fuck in the first 30 seconds and apparently he can't pronounce science now? - it says sci-in. (It continues to be flawed - he sounds sick when he says UC Berkeley). If I heard this knowing it was really him I would be concerned he was having a stroke.

His voice is defective enough that it is actually irritating to listen to.

Also, the opening monologue doesn't sound much like Feynman's style - he was known for being irreverent, flippant, intense and maybe even occasionally dismissive - but not this aggressive - certainly in a sitdown interview he agreed to. Also hard to believe he would fuck up the word "interviewee".

He wants to "walk"? and listen?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

This would only fool someone that has never heard Feynman speak for an appreciable period - but then you might as well get a decent impersonator. And really the content doesn't hold up to even basic critical listening scrutiny.

> They mostly don't say nonsense.

Oh god dude, most of the material is false and easily verified as false from basic sources. It's mostly nonsense.

EDIT: Ok listening to segment between 3:30 and 4:30 I know I'm being trolled.

Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by thinkmcfly »

klabb3 wrote: post #47
thinkmcfly wrote: post #44

I get the interest in Richard Feynman, but why lex?

A huge set of easily accessible training data?

It just seems sad to use the ghost of a guy who desperately chases pop culture/mainstream media trends to talk with feynman's ghost, and not even have it be part of some bit or social commentary

Re: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman

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Post by fuckstick »

dqpb wrote: post #36

Is this direct text-to-speech or is someone reading the text and transforming the audio?

Listen to the audio between 4:00 and 4:15 - maybe in a quiet room with headphones. That's either TTS, or a Lex Fridman impersonator with some fucked up vocal cords. You tell me what's more likely.

There's also the mispronunciations for common words - words that you can easily verify Lex Fridman has no difficulty with.

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