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What is the best argument why this technology exists or should exist? It's fun?Live translation is the only one I can think of, and even then the benefits of the persons 'real' voice are scant.

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It's already actively in use to edit and clean up podcast recordings. This use case is basically identical to the malicious case, it's all about who's doing it and what their intent is. If it's fixing a word you stumbled on, or replacing an inaccurate quote with an accurate one, that's fine, but other things are problematic.

Someone who is losing the ability to speak might want to have this tech so they can still have somewhat normal phone calls with their loved ones.

I think the potential for abuse is pretty high with this tech but it's foolish to pretend we can keep it from being used.

If I want to do a voiceover of a ten minute video, I can type out the transcript and produce a flawless one-take audio track. This saves hours of time finding a quiet place to record, saying the lines, having a good mic, doing post-recording cleanup to remove coughs or passing airplane noise, multiple takes because I goofed a word up, etc.

I don’t know if this is the best use of the tech we’ve found yet, but it’s already a huge time saver.

I create internal training videos ant my job and that’s the use case as well. Not many people want to have their voice used and it’s easier and way faster for me to have an ai produce a voice than to get someone to do it for me.

Scooping up from the middle class, one class of professions at a time. But this is not just the like how the internet disrupted ‘everything’ and moved things online, this is going to take all the liveleyhoods and suck them dry filling up the technobros coffers until there’s nothing left. But there are upsides too, the potential for good applications is quite broad.

Techno determinism. The belief that we can't choose not to develop a technology as a species, so various people decide they don't want the other guy to get it first. We all end up worse off. It's a kind of self-conscious, sometimes ideological, prisoner's dilemma.

"it's cool"?

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