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Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning (fortune.com)
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Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning::The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors on strike.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well that's weird, since the article says:

Perhaps owing to VALL-E's ability to potentially fuel mischief and deception, Microsoft has not provided VALL-E code for others to experiment with, so we could not test VALL-E's capabilities.

You think maybe that Github release, which isn't from Microsoft, might not be the same thing despite the name?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

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