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Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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"unauthorized" is a weasel word because it implies that it should be necessary for the developer to ask David Attenborough for authorization to create a clone of his voice using AI.

he probably has verbal authorization XD

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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These things have suddenly going mainstream and lot of ppl (including me) are having existential question: what does it mean to be a human?

PS: It will be fun to do in "damn nature u r scary" voice & style [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vlFHlSm1r4

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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"unauthorized" is a weasel word because it implies that it should be necessary for the developer to ask David Attenborough for authorization to create a clone of his voice using AI.

By this metric I should not ask for permission to train a model on your liking and share with your wife generated pictures of you having sex with other women

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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Right now this requires API tokens and being dependent on third party companies that will cut off your access if they decide they don’t like you.

The moment these models can run locally on the kind of cheap hardware that phone scam operations have will be the real Pandora’s box moment. (I give it 3-5 years or so)

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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"unauthorized" is a weasel word because it implies that it should be necessary for the developer to ask David Attenborough for authorization to create a clone of his voice using AI.

Right of publicity.

https://www.inta.org/topics/right-of-publicity/

Re: Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

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post #2

"unauthorized" is a weasel word because it implies that it should be necessary for the developer to ask David Attenborough for authorization to create a clone of his voice using AI.

By this metric I should not ask for permission to train a model on your liking and share with your wife generated pictures of you having sex with other women

Intent matters a lot when it comes to both morality and legality.
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