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by testacpwoek 806 days ago
It's insane that this protection exists for "prominent figures" but nobody else. The same damage that can be done to prominent figures can be done to regular people, they acknowledge the damage can be done, and yet they're still rolling this out? The more OpenAI does the more it's clear they don't give a single damn about the consequences of their technology.
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That's what for-profit and investors do to morality.
If you had just worked harder and become a billionaire you too could have been safe from the AI apocalypse
It is very obvious that the amount and type of damage is not the same if you clone any random person's voice or clone a political leader's voice.

It is not the same damage.

Murdering a random civilian and murdering a public official are also very different levels of damage, but we still outlaw and prosecute both of them. This is the same thing.

Not to mention, what constitutes a political leader? Just the upper echelon? What about local civil servants? Mayors, cops, judges? Are they gonna have a database of every public or political figure in the country? No they won't. This is absurd.

Not to mention, what constitutes a political leader? Just the upper echelon? What about local civil servants? Mayors, cops, judges?

Barack Obama started out as a "community organizer."

AI can clone someone making a public speech at that level, then store it forever until they become the president.

Many jurisdictions actually do have higher penalties for crimes of violence committed against public officials than ordinary citizens. Assault a USPS postal worker at a post office and you automatically have a higher sentence than assaulting a UPS worker at a UPS store.
I know that. Both are still illegal, which is what I said, and is the point.
Don’t forget business people. Clone the voice of some executives and start calling people pretending to be them
The “Open” in OpenAI refers to, uh, a certain part of your anatomy…