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This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by jsemrau »

didericis wrote: post #56

I 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 gene…

I am with you on this one. What defines us as a people is the ability to enjoy shared social experiences. The more tailored and personalized an experience becomes the more it isolates us. We don't (at least I am my social circle) speak about TikTok's the way we speak about YouTube videos.

But more importantly, boredom triggers innovation. As we are consuming ourselves to death, we might lose the ability to truly create. Maybe that's why the last 20 years of content feel quite generic and sterile.

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Post by yieldcrv »

didericis wrote: post #63
yieldcrv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m looking forward to NPCs having dynamic responses with real voices Doesn't have to be prerecorded, just trained

A galaxy scale exploration game on the scale of Elite Dangerous where you could have more complex and varied interaction would be pretty amazing. The way you could apply these new AI models to video games has some wild potential. I think video games are one of the areas where I see the most potential for positive impact rather than negative impact.

The file sizes would drop by 50 gigabytes again

Most of it is high definition audio these days, and then that just gets replaced by a 10gb training set, or maybe the training set becomes a shared resource on the console

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Post by wand3r »

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #66

The examples are insanely good. Insanely good. I can barely believe we really live in a world where this is possible. I don't have anything constructive to add.. just wow.

I work in TTS and i just dont believe this. If these really are random text and not trained on literally the copy they are reading, with no correction I would be surprised. Also, our competitors have good voices but they also take ages to produce. Maybe these really are legit but take like 1 minute to produce or something. So while this is impressive, i doubt that in practice this would be this high quality and could even approach real time

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

didericis wrote: post #56

I 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 gene…

> 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.

Eh. I’ll take a MAYBE over the past 10 years or more of the human driven social media manipulations and scams and poison. We’ve made almost literally fucking nothing of value in a decade. It’s been ads, Ponzi schemes, and a race to the bottom of tolerance.

I’ll take the democratization of content. Knowing that it will allow the good and the bad.

… so how it different from the radio or TV or “influencers” now? I have limited time to consume media and am not going to be less picky when it gets easier for people to make garbage.

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Post by bongoman37 »

holler wrote: post #37
bsenftner wrote: post #34

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Not only voice actors, include radio hosts, documentary/news content, any voice over for anything, as well as imitation of familiar voices.

This will really open pandoras box for scammers and other bad actors. Grandma won't know she's speaking with an AI.

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Post by xwdv »

didericis wrote: post #56

I 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 gene…

The ideal use case is someone who wants to be an influencer, but is neither pretty, intelligent, nor has a good voice, could simply use face filters, GPT text, and a voice filter to make themselves sound and look beautiful.

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Post by snek_case »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #70
didericis wrote: post #56

I 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 gene…

I agree with this completely. Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. The most dangerous aspect of this is that each step seems relatively harmless: right now, ChatGPT and DALL-E are amusements, but each small step is building a monstrous and as yo…

> If I could have one single wish fulfilled in this world, it would be that every single human being gain a natural and instinctual revulsion for advanced technology. If someone asked me what disease was the worst that ever plagued humanity, it would not be smallpox or the flu or COVID, it would be the tech company.

Time to go live in a cabin in the woods and go write your manifesto on a typewriter...

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Post by 5350-uiop-1130 »

didericis wrote: post #56

I 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 gene…

I think we already have a lot of soulless human generated search results.

I think there will be need for a greater level of filtering and curation yes, but I see it as an opportunity both for creators and curators.

The barriers to entry for media creation will go down, but with saturation also the already low margins of profit will get worse.

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