David Ingram covers tech for NBC News.
Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI released a preview Friday of a digital voice generator that it said could produce natural-sounding speech based on a single 15-second audio sample. The software is called Voice Engine. It’s the latest product to come out of the San Francisco startup that’s also behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E.
A Democratic operative later said he commissioned the fake voice using artificial intelligence and the help of a New Orleans street magician. After that call, the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to ban unsolicited AI robocalls. OpenAI acknowledged the political risks in its blog post. “We recognize that generating speech that resembles people’s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year,” it said. The company said it was “engaging with U.S.
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