Their Steve Jobs voice simulation is creepily good: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/34vB41lyQ-A
This probably breaks HN etiquette but... wow
We should be allowed to break etiquette for the rare and the shocking!
This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
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#52> Not only can they be more cost-effective without compromising on quality... That feels dishonest. Even if this AI is just as good at speaking as a professional voice actor (which I'm not sold on), a voice actor does more than just read the line. In ideal circumstances, they have a lot of context for what their character is doing and feeling. Is this potentially a good option for saving money on video game voices? Q…
> Even if this AI is just as good at speaking as a professional voice actor (which I'm not sold on), a voice actor does more than just read the line. In ideal circumstances, they have a lot of context for what their character is doing and feeling.
How long do you think that advantage will last for. Years? Months? Weeks?
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#53Amazing.
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#54Where can I use this? Is it public? Is there an API?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
This will really open pandoras box for scammers and other bad actors. Grandma won't know she's speaking with an AI.
Grandma already falls for scams. Will I know I’m speaking with an AI?
Any interaction that you didn’t kick off is a scam. Whether is is an AI or human is irrelevant.
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#56I can't tell if I'm starting to get that old person "new things are scary" instinct or if my gut level of fear about the implications of these things is warranted.
As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse. We're already drowning in ad dominated cynical soulless computer generated search results. Are all online forums going to end up being drowned out by cynical pumped out super cheap to produce simulacrums of creative content now too?
If I want people to buy more Triscuts next year what's stopping me from writing a bunch of prompts to insert subtle marketing cues to buy Triscuts with entire fake ecosystems of users, fan art, radio call ins, user stories, etc in like every niche community in existence and flooding them with soulless fake interaction?
That exists to a certain extent already, but I don't see how this stuff won't make it way easier, way more effective, and way more widespread.
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#57I'm listening to an audiobook whose reader is not as good as some of these voices. At one level, I'm impressed but at an another I'm sadden since we are heading towards uncharted territory. We are looking at a future where we'll have content, video,audio, and text by the truckload. More does not mean better. It just means more blah stuff. I don't think that's the future I'm looking forward to live in.
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#58I've been using Azure to generate speech audio for my game and it's extremely good. These samples seem even better. I'm wondering how less cherry picked clips will turn out
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#59I'm listening to an audiobook whose reader is not as good as some of these voices. At one level, I'm impressed but at an another I'm sadden since we are heading towards uncharted territory. We are looking at a future where we'll have content, video,audio, and text by the truckload. More does not mean better. It just means more blah stuff. I don't think that's the future I'm looking forward to live in.
The key will be authenticity and trust. And in the world where the percentage of online content that contains this ends up in the vast minority of content, in person expertise and meetings will have to make a return out of sheer necessity.
It's starting to very much feel like we're entering the age of information manipulation outlined in the Ghost in the Shell TV series. Except it isn't a 90's/00's depiction of the future, it's just with far less robots and prosthetics and a lot more mundane.
I just keep coming back to the scene where they have satellite video footage of a nuclear submarine preparing for a nuclear attack and the discussion lamenting that it's just video, nobody will believe it as evidence.
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#60> At Eleven, we're fully committed both to respecting intellectual property rights and to implementing safeguards against potential misuse of our technology
Unlike Stable Diffusion trampling over the copyright of artists without their permission and OpenAI doing the same for code mangled with incompatible licenses and monetizing it and outputting the trained data verbatim whilst opening a pandora's box and then attempting to write detectors and watermarks afterwards. I'm skeptical on Eleven Lab's statement on adding their detectors before release, but we'll see.
Should there eventually be an open source version of a competing model by someone, it should be trained on public domain sources. This was the case with Dance Diffusion as Stability AI would have been sued to the ground by the RIAA had they done that. [0] [1]
It will only be a matter of time before the legal system catches up with AI generated content and scrutiny over the trained data on copyrighted content without permission and how it was trained. Any output generated by an AI is automatically public domain and un-copyrightable. [2]
This AI hype is another VC scam to unload their investments in AI startups to big tech once again and then pretend how AI is making the world better but when they know it is actually doing the opposite with far reaching consequences. Of course it can't be stopped, but it also cannot go unchecked and unregulated forever.
[0] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/record-industry-clamp...
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/ai-music-generator-dance-d...
[2] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...