[bastawhiz]

All of those individual seconds don't add up to a sum greater than their parts. There are trillions (quadrillions?) of seconds of reality that those same cameras/microphones didn't capture. Capturing a single second of each of a billion people's lives isn't really all that useful, especially for advertisers.

[SketchySeaBeast]

"Based upon our spying people spend a large amount of time saying '...eese'. Can someone please find out what 'eese' is?"

[TeMPOraL]

Do people really even say that?

[SketchySeaBeast]

Once upon a time people did in fact say "Cheese" when taking pictures.

[TeMPOraL]

Yes, but I thought that this was long ago, and since then, saying this got... cheesy.

[NotYourLawyer]

I’m willing to bet that an AI could learn a lot about a person by listening to a large number of short audio clips, together with the photos themselves.

[bastawhiz]

One second isn't even long enough to hear the full pronunciation of all of most English words. Let's say people take ten photos per day. Let's generously say that captures ten random spoken words. Ten random words per day is hardly enough for a _human_ to learn anything about a person, let alone AI. AI cannot magically conjure data from noise.

And when you think about what people take pictures of (their parking spot, selfies, nudes, landmarks, birthday cakes, sunsets, cats), what's heard is likely not even relevant to the picture taker's life or interests. If I look at all of the photos I've taken in the last two weeks, I've got:

- Cat (2) - Building (1) - Stuff in my home (6) - Selfie (4)

All thirteen photos were taken in ~silence.

[tough]

It takes 3 seconds of you speaking to clone your voice with AI

[renewiltord]

You can get that from me by calling and asking if Henry is there. I will answer "No, I'm sorry, but you must have the wrong number". Cheap with Twilio.

[bastawhiz]

If they have access to your pictures, they have access to your videos. This matters because people don't think audio is being recorded when they take photos. As far as threat modeling goes, creating a cloned voice is something these apps could have already done.

[fauxpause_]

If you accept that as true then you also have to accept that your voice is hopelessly copyable and defense against that is futile. So it’s not really important.

[tough]

> then you also have to accept that your voice is hopelessly copyable and defense against that is futile.

I kinda agree, still worth it to mention to your family or whatever some kinda safe word or whatever. I speak several languages so I guess any scammer impersonating me would focus on one, but who knows you can also make it speak any language I guess.

In order to be safe you'll have to pre-establish a safe word only you and the other person know in order to avoid fake scams etc