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this will enhance accessibility to a vast number of people with disabilities. Also imagine reading your books/articles in voice of your favorite narrator.

A normal person will have to work really hard to do a 1:1 real time voice obfuscation with the processing it'd take.

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Why are you lot always doom and gloom and small-minded, is beyond me.

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Because you're not thinking 10 years out. At a certain point you will be able to copy any voice and any video of a person in realtime. It will be as simple as downloading an app. When AI has scanned your whole life's details and it can be found by anyone there will be no privacy left. Nothing will be trusted anymore.

It’s not about being doom and gloom. It’s the opposite of being small-minded.

I like all of the above use cases you suggested, I like science advancements. I’m sure this will help plenty.

But, at the same time, we should be really careful and aware of what we’re creating.

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