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OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices

www.nytimes.com

First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie.

Now, it has unveiled technology that can recreate someone’s voice.

The high-profile A.I. start-up said on Friday that a small group of businesses was testing a new OpenAI system, Voice Engine, that can recreate a person’s voice from a 15-second recording. If you upload a recording of yourself and a paragraph of text, it can read the text using a synthetic voice that sounds like yours.

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I swear these fuckers are just out to make a buck off of human misery.
- TortoiseTTS can already do this on your local system, if you've a relatively-new Nvidia card, and probably others can as well.
  Can't hold back technology, just adapt to it.
  
  That doesn’t make sense. Some technologies are bad. One that actively and systematically dismantles rights, for example. Nearly every capitalist technological advancement has helped capitalists exploit workers for more profit—and we are nearing the endgame there. None of these things should “just be adapted to.” Passive consumerism isn’t exactly a heroic position lol
  
  The only way to adapt to this in the long run is the complete abolition of capitalism. It's fundamentally incompatible with all forms of labor becoming obsolete.
  
  Weapons manufacturers are constantly coming up with new and innovative ways to murder people. I can definitely hold that against them despite the fact that it is simply technological advancement.
  
  You can still mock it freely
- They're not releasing this yet though, and require even private testers to get explicit consent and not imitate public figures, restrictions I'm sure will carry over if and when it becomes public. They've been cautious to a fault. Look at something like ElevenLabs for an example of lax enforcement for cash.
  
  Lol BS. They've said that about chat gpt 2 and about every second released product. There's nothing they can do except ask people not to infring the rules.
  
  Are you seriously sticking up for this shit? What possible use of this would benefit humanity at all? Do tell.
I hate this company more every single day.
If it weren't already taken, they should rename themselves Pandora.
- Weyland-Yutani maybe?
"Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It's $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!"
Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation
So like eleven labs?
Is there a FOSS way to do this yet?
- Yes, has existed for years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see.
The company said it was particularly worried that this kind of technology could be used to break voice authenticators that control access to online banking accounts and other personal applications.
“This is a sensitive thing, and it is important to get it right,” an OpenAI product manager, Jeff Harris, said in an interview.
(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, on claims of copyright infringement involving artificial intelligence systems that generate text.)
Businesses can use these technologies to generate audiobooks, give voice to online chatbots or even build an automated radio station DJ.
In January, New Hampshire residents received robocall messages that dissuaded them from voting in the state primary in a voice that was most likely artificially generated to sound like President Biden.
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How they can unveil something which exist since an year ? Am I reading 1984 and soon OpenAI will have invented the wheel ?

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