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Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox “oof” sound effect.

Or a 3 and a half hour video about how a game is just okay. If you don't know how to edit down videos to a reasonable length, then you're just wasting my time.

Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

All of the AI tech is based on research papers, which are semi-publicly available.

Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno... have you tried Googling it? I figured it was some word for grandmother, but I've never heard of it, and neither has Google, apparently.

Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have personally used VALL-E and tried it out. What they are claiming is absolute bullshit. It is "a" voice, but it's certainly nowhere close to "your" voice. Don't believe me? You can try it out yourself.

Real AI training requires putting in the work.

Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Shit website is still pushing shit unresearched sci-pop articles.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He sounds like Goodell-Bot.

Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning in c/[email protected]

[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I’m sorry, while I understand this issue is a more visible issue for actors/voice actors, there are a lot of people who are going to be hurt by this in the long run.

I'm sorry, but as somebody who's tried out the tech, the amount of vocal processing required is still many hours of data. Even the more professional AI cloning web sites that allow you to clone your own voice require that you submit "a couple of hours" of your voice data. The reason why musicians and voice actors get into the middle of this is because they already have many hours of voice work just out there. And in many cases, the speech-to-text transcription, which is required to train a voice model, is already available. For example, an audio book.

You think scam calls are bad now?

You think scam call centers are going to spend the time to look for voice clips, parse them out, transpose them into text, put them in a model, train that model for many hours, realize the Python code needs some goddamn dependency that will take many more to debug, fix parameter settings, and then get a subpar voice model that couldn't fool anybody because they don't have enough voice clips.

They can't even be bothered to look up public information about the caller they are making the call to. Fuck, the last call I got was from a "support center for your service", and when I asked "which service?", they immediately hung up. They do not give a fuck about trying to come prepared with your personal details. They want the easiest mark possible that doesn't ask questions and can get scammed without even knowing their name.

Imagine if Gamgam gets a call

Who's Gamgam?

Record your voice a few times

Yeah, sorry, you need more than a "few times" or a "few voice clips".

Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning in c/[email protected]

Slack Is Basically Facebook Now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Slack simply serves as a form of social media for the office that reduces employee productivity.

JFC, I have not seen such a worse take in many years. The Slack redesign was annoying and I wished Slack would stop making the UI worse each update, but it's still the lifeblood of our communication chain.

Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humans don't have feathers.

X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So, a non-article by somebody who didn't do their research and has already resolved itself. Got it!

A sex education program causes controversy in Belgium. Schools are burning, the country is worried in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

As it turns out, fundamentalists are actually terrorists.