What could possibly go wrong?
Meta-formerly-Facebook has unveiled a "breakthrough" new text-to-speech AI that can edit existing audio, speak in six languages, and — in a more unsettling turn — replicate your loved ones' voices.
You know, just in case you want to hear from your aunt, but don't actually want to hang out on the phone for an hour., published late last week. "We've developed Voicebox, a state-of-the-art AI model that can perform speech generation tasks — like editing, sampling and stylizing — that it wasn't specifically trained to do through in-context learning."
Basically, all you have to do in order to replicate someone's voice is feed the program an audio clip as short as two seconds long. Voicebox will then "match the audio style," and boom: with little more than a written prompt and the click of a few buttons, you can get an AI-powered replica of your friend or family member's voice — and the ethical and legal implications are palpable.
Nevertheless, the concept of replicating your bestie's voice is still a bit unsettling, not to mention ripe for abuse. After all, if you can replicate a friend's voice with just a two-second sound clip, you could practically replicate anyone's voice as long as you had the audio.
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