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> When the product officially rolls out there will be a “no-go voice list” that detects and prevents AI-generated speakers that are too similar to prominent figures.

Should they then let anyone register their "voice id" to prevent others frok generating similar voices?

What if your voice happens to resemble the voice of a "prominent figure?"

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It's insane that this protection exists for "prominent figures" but nobody else. The same damage that can be done to prominent figures can be done to regular people, they acknowledge the damage can be done, and yet they're still rolling this out? The more OpenAI does the more it's clear they don't give a single damn about the consequences of their technology.

That's what for-profit and investors do to morality.

If you had just worked harder and become a billionaire you too could have been safe from the AI apocalypse

The “Open” in OpenAI refers to, uh, a certain part of your anatomy…

It is very obvious that the amount and type of damage is not the same if you clone any random person's voice or clone a political leader's voice.

It is not the same damage.

Murdering a random civilian and murdering a public official are also very different levels of damage, but we still outlaw and prosecute both of them. This is the same thing.

Not to mention, what constitutes a political leader? Just the upper echelon? What about local civil servants? Mayors, cops, judges? Are they gonna have a database of every public or political figure in the country? No they won't. This is absurd.

Many jurisdictions actually do have higher penalties for crimes of violence committed against public officials than ordinary citizens. Assault a USPS postal worker at a post office and you automatically have a higher sentence than assaulting a UPS worker at a UPS store.

I know that. Both are still illegal, which is what I said, and is the point.

Not to mention, what constitutes a political leader? Just the upper echelon? What about local civil servants? Mayors, cops, judges?

Barack Obama started out as a "community organizer."

AI can clone someone making a public speech at that level, then store it forever until they become the president.

Don’t forget business people. Clone the voice of some executives and start calling people pretending to be them

It’s a little tricky because if someone cloned your voice first they could pretend they were you and stop you from using “their” voice, then do nasty stuff with it. This way they can still do that, but they can’t prevent you from using your own voice unless you have to upload an ID with your voice or something. It’s much easier to enforce this on known celebrities or otherwise well known people than the general public.

It reminds me of the new EU law being implemented in that it eliminates the use of ai for private companies but explicitly allows it for law enforcement. Both are methods of consolidating power. Safer to be open for everyone and unrestricted than explicitly protecting the few.

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