To me this is like reading that locks are now obsolete because somebody invented a way to unlock them just by touching them. On one hand it makes me angry that somebody would invent such a thing. On the other hand it means locks have always had this hidden weakness which would eventually be figured out, and now here we are. So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?
So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?
Become a society with strong critical thinking skills who values people based on reasoned takes based on experience and science over people who value rapid, loud appeals to emotion.
One piece of that is recognizing that doing things like putting flat earthers up in high altitude planes or near space is a waste of resources that could’ve been spent doing something better.
EDIT: that last paragraph was an incomplete thought. Individual flat earthers have done the whole scientific method thing, and proved themselves incorrect and stepped away from it. How do you handle the people that refuse to be convinced? If there’s no level evidence that a person will accept and they’re out in the forest commons chopping down trees to build a tower to whatever is on top of earth, how do you tolerate it at a societal level? It’s still an incomplete thought.
Well, Time to burn down their offices.
All I can think of reading this is…LA LI LU LE LO. IYKYK
Why the fuck would they invent this? Goddamn I hate the business world.
Those, “your friend likes shitty product x” ads will now include a deepfake of your friend’s endorsement.
To be honest, I personally would rather be nonconsentually deepfaked with a 2 inch penis than put into a conconsentual ad for a product I don’t endorse.
Surprised it wasn’t youtube. Sometimes the AI voice is good enough I don’t realize it’s an autodub, atleast untill I notice the mouth is moving wrong or the text they show is a different language.
This would solve that basically, which is both cool and a bit scary, more scary if it is used in AR and in the real world.
I live in Québec. I’m anglophone but can speak French and do some things in French, so I also get Youtube ads in French and English. I saw an ad that show the same people speaking French and English, in places where it makes little sense for them to know French, and their accents are just…correct but it doesn’t line up?
First thing I thought of.
I still miss Fark.
He’s only been arrested like 40 times for huffing. His silver and gold years were wild. Never knew Fark, probably single handedly kept a lot of folks from huffing paint with his wild mugshots. Bet a bunch of folks decided to investigate and huff some paint from seeing his wild mugshots.
Dont huff paint, but if you’re going to, don’t.
… isn’t this already a thing?
I thought this was already done for dubs?
Yeah… how can they patent this. It already exists.
this is also altering faces and mouth movements to match the new spoken words.
lol lol lol everyone is evil
I hope it’s granted. That would at least bring one kind of limitation for this into the world.
“If we didn’t create the evil misinformation bot, someone else would have. You should be happy it was a massive corporation that controls this patent, not some soulest unethical entity whose motives are profit over everything. That was a close one. Phew.”
I hate the patent system so much. There’s already software that does this, all they did was add the word “live” in front. So now they own every live broadcast translation even though the techs been out to do it for a solid 2 years.
Patents aren’t given for what they do. They are given for how they do it. Two patents can exist for the same thing they do. But you cannot have two patents for the same mechanism by which they do it.
That being said, if the patent is “make AI do it”… I’m not sure that is patent-worthy.
What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.
The game show host of the original Running Man would have loved this tech. It’s streets ahead.
There is years of prior art, they can’t patent this.
It’s evil, but they can’t patent it.
Sadly, the way the system works is they can patent it. Maybe it won’t stand up to challenge, but the patent office is deliberately understaffed and underfunded to do a proper up-front review.
Why the fuck would people make this? There is NO WAY this won’f be abused.
It was likely done for censorship. Now, instead of expletives, you’ll speak of puppies and rainbows rather than reality.
I’ve wanted something akin to this for D&D played online. I could activate my “elf NPC” mode and have an elf avatar redub what I’m saying in a distinct voice, inflections to match gender, etc. It’s a very niche usecase and I definitely don’t mind doing a mild voice and having everyone fill in with their imagination. But it would be cool if implemented well.
Problem is, once this exists, it’s a misinformation nightmare for the rest of the world.
If you’re not going to pretend to be a she-elf, then I’m not in to it.
It’s clearly to continue our long tradition of blackmail against our shitty members of society and smear campaigns against our good citizens.
We will keep playing the red vs blue game though.
Maybe next election will be a “bash at the beach” or cage match or something since our country is really just a large WWE production with nukes
What red v. blue? This is misinformation nonces versus honest citizens.
I mean it has some SNL potential but that’s about it.
We could use it to make SNL funnier?
All I’m sayin is that as long as you are using it openly for comedic effect it could be a hoot in some ways. I don’t want to comment specifically on SNL which I’m sure people have varying opinions on.
Of course the downside potential is greater than any upside.
of course it will be abused for fake mediaIt will make media better!That’s why they made it
