@drewharwell "My voice is my passport. Please verify me."

@drewharwell Most of my conversations are shorter than that.

@drewharwell One thing I hate about technology is that once the knowledge exists, you can't uninvent it. We can only find ways to avoid it or make it work to our advantage. We now live in a world where video lies, and I don't see that ever going away.

@drewharwell Ah, so next they put voice actors out of a job.

@drewharwell Angelina Jolie just called me and said she wants to meet me for dinner! So I sent her money for Uber

@drewharwell "Hey Siri, how much of my voice do you record when I ask you do to things?"

@drewharwell They spent so long wondering if they could, they didn't get around to wondering if they should.

@drewharwell There go all the local radio guys who do voiceovers for their respective stations.

@drewharwell minor inconvenience in comparison what AI will do to us next 😅🦾

@drewharwell Please note that this call may be recorded for “training” purposes. (Training. Nyuck Nyuck)

@drewharwell I will combat this by wildly varying my pitch and intonation at all times

@drewharwell why I don’t pick up the phone anymore to numbers I don’t recognize. Leave a message and if it is legit, I will call back and/or plug the number into my list.

@drewharwell idiots.

@drewharwell AI will never be able to randomly and for no reason fully mispronounce common words, as I do everytime I open my mouth! That I can gar-runt-tee-ya!

@drewharwell I find this bit just perplexing:

> For VALL-E to generate a good result, the voice in the three-second sample must closely match a voice in the training data.

It’s not that far off saying “I can play any tune on the piano, as long as it sounds just like chopsticks”

@drewharwell so recordings and images are now *completely* untrustworthy - will society learn to discount recorded media as sources of truth?

@drewharwell I was thinking today that scammers are going to have a field day with this technology :ablobthirst:

@drewharwell "It contains 60,000 hours of English language speech from more than 7,000 speakers, mostly pulled from LibriVox public domain audiobooks."

It seems in the current age that all gifts to the commons (if they cannot be enclosed) will be used as weapons against us. :/

@drewharwell you mean like when we get spoof robocalls that get people to say things like “Hello? Who is this?” or “Sorry, not interested, thanks.” Boom, mass collection of 3s snippets tied to a particular phone number.

@drewharwell I don't see the problem here. If you don't want your voice being turned into an AI that can make it sound like you're saying a bunch of stuff you never said, just don't speak 🤷

@drewharwell robots.txt, but in my mouth

Unlike fully self-driving modes on cars and crypto and other nonsense, this kind of AI is getting scary, fast.

People are highly susceptible to this kind of thing. We'll go most of the way toward meeting the technology where it is. Already the only thing standing between us and chaos is the tentativeness of researchers and markets that have yet to figure out how to steal away control.

@drewharwell@mastodon.sociaThanks for the reassurance. My voice is well and truly out there. I'm doomed.

@drewharwell Mit irgendwelchen Fake-Anrufen geht das schon. Da reicht den aktuellen Betrügern ja schon ein JA um einem einen Strick draus zu drehen,

@drewharwell Melko karmivaa. Kolmen sekunnin puheen perusteella ääntäsi voidaan matkia (toistaiseksi toimii englanniksi). Kenelle äänesi voi jatkossa soitella tietämättäsi?

@drewharwell Wow, they trained it on LibriVox (a collection of public domain audiobooks made by volunteers)!

@drewharwell @martinvermeer You mean like a voicemail that you leave?

@drewharwell Disturbing. Luckily, it works well only if you read a book out loud and donated the recording to #LibriVox.

@drewharwell At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

@drewharwell “Alexa, mhhmmm” (swallowing hard)