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Meta says its new speech-generating AI model is too dangerous for public release. - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

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Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

People understand that text can be fake.

People don't really understand that voices can be. It's opening up a lot of scams with people pretending to be kidnapped (or otherwise desperate) relatives and taking money from people. If you make it easier to automate that without the human in play and have it appear responsive? A lot more is going to happen a lot more convincingly.

I don't at all believe Facebook cares about that, but it is a real downside to the tech.