Lyrebird's website leaves me with no confidence whatsoever that they understand the ethical implications of the technology they're developing or that they are working to develop their technology in such a way as to address those concerns.

I hope every company that's working on this stuff either fails, financially or technologically, or ideally gets regulated out of existence, at least until they commit to working on technology, policy and journalistic techniques to mitigate the absolutely inevitable misuse, because as a society we simply are not ready for this. If you work for one of these groups, you should either ensure they're working on said mitigations, or quit.

Would you prefer only the Russian government had access to this technology? By making the technology publicly available we can all fully understand its power. It's mathematics, and mathematics cannot be suppressed no matter how much you want it to be.

it’s funny they find some convoluted justification saying it’s to help people who can’t speak