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by testacpwoek 811 days ago
Making AI-voice videos of Trump and Biden playing Minecraft is one thing, they clearly sound overly robotic and that makes it funny, but being able to perfectly replicate voices is a realistic way is a technology that has very little real-life utility and so, so many real-life downsides.

Literally what is the point of this tech? To eliminate voice actors? I don't buy for a second their supposed use-cases of accessibility or assisting people with disabilities. We're gonna enable people to fake voices realistically off of 15 seconds of for example a voicemail just so media companies can save a few bucks? This is actually madness.

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The only "legitimate" use I can think of is making call center AI agents sound like people. And all the other ones involve getting enough of someone's "voiceprint" to impersonate them to get money or ruin reputations.