AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
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#2I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".
Re: AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
#3Riiiight
Re: AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
#4Speech generation has gotten really good, but there's simply no way to faithfully recreate someone's vocal idiosyncracies and cadence with just "a few seconds" of real audio. That's where the models tend to fall short.
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#5I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".
“some number” would be 65. things change
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#6Re: AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
#7I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".
Remember when the PlayStation 2 was "technically a supercomputer" and taking LSD a certain number of times made you insane? Great moments in marketing history
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#8I can believe a speech generator too good to release, but not even a perfect algorithm can get every one of your inflections and verbal tics with just a few seconds of sample material. Makes me think the whole thing is bs. I instantly see any "ooh our thing we are making on purpose is so dangerous oohhh" as an attempt at regulatory capture until I see proof of the danger.
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#9Things are progressing just as https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ predicted.
> so 2024 will be the last human election and what we mean by that is not that it's just going to be an AI running as president in 2028 but that will really be although maybe um it will be you know humans as figureheads but it'll be Whoever greater compute power will win
We saw already AI voices influencing elections in India https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-voice-modi-singing-politics/
> AI-generated songs, like the ones featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are gaining traction ahead of India’s upcoming elections. [...] Earlier this month, an Instagram video of Modi “singing” a Telugu love song had over 2 million views, while a similar Tamil-language song had more than 2.7 million. A Punjabi song racked up more than 17 million views.
Re: AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
#10What is the point of them trying to create this? That something like this would mostly be used to create disinformation and create chaos is easily understood before making something like this.
Truly irresponsible