Ars TechnicaOpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns
Voice Engine can clone voices with 15 seconds of audio, but OpenAI is warning of potential misuse.
Paul Cantrell@arstechnica
I remember OpenAI holding back GPT from public release in a very similar fashion: it’s too powerful, concerns over misuse, etc. Then they went ahead and released it to the public anyway, with all the potential abuses barely mitigated and now materializing exactly as predicted.
At this point, I can’t view this sort of “It’s too powerful to be public!!” statement as anything but prerelease marketing hype.
To be clear, I’m very much in favor of ethical non-release of dangerous tech.
If you’re going to do that, the way to do it is not to send out a press release. It’s to keep your dangerous discovery somewhere between low-key and confidential, and get your research community working to develop mitigations and countermeasures •before• your creation wanders into the view of investors and militaries.
2xfo@inthehands
I keep thinking about the final episode of Silicon Valley and saying to myself "if only"
I keep thinking about the final episode of Silicon Valley and saying to myself "if only"
@RnDanger
Still haven’t seen the series! One of these days — although it keeps feeling like it’s going to hit so close to home it’s just annoying
Still haven’t seen the series! One of these days — although it keeps feeling like it’s going to hit so close to home it’s just annoying
@inthehands
I feel like Mike Judge does a great job showing the absurdity while it represents things very accurately.
He's an engineer, I've learned. He animated Beavis and Butthead to scale realistically with the mini Mart as they walked towards it, for example
I feel like Mike Judge does a great job showing the absurdity while it represents things very accurately.
He's an engineer, I've learned. He animated Beavis and Butthead to scale realistically with the mini Mart as they walked towards it, for example