So some of you might remember this post (and the subsequent demonstration on national news) of using a voice cloning tool (AI, Audio Deep Fake) by @racheltobac
(If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Rachel is amazing.)
I'd never needed to do a similar attack before, but! I was just tasked yesterday with researching it.
Asked some friends for a turn-key solution to clone voices. Got pointed to a website. Signed up for $1 a month (first month... then it goes to $5 a month thereafter).
Pulled some audio of my mark down from a youtube interview (a podcast works great too).
Only needed a minute's worth of audio.
Uploaded it to the website for cloning.
Typed out a quick script for the voice to read.
30 seconds later, I had my cloned audio.
It was so good, that it even included natural voice inflections AND!!! verbal pauses like umm's and uhh's that matched the mark's original presentation. I can't tell the difference between the cloned voice and the original person.
Y'all... voice cloning and audio deep fakes are well past the ease of "script-kiddy" level. Anyone can do it.
This week I argue for using property #tax reform and #AI for good.
"Housing costs have climbed … with the average US home sale price up 47.5% from Q4 '20 to Q4 ’22. The crunch … is felt acutely by buyers of mid-range and working-class housing.
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Inequitable property assessments contribute to this issue [and] inequity cuts in favor of higher earners; more expensive properties are frequently undervalued, while less expensive properties are overvalued.”
Here is an interesting piece about some possible impacts that AI might have on online communities.
Shown here is one that I feel has been a problem for many years:
"... everything new posted online is created by a machine or by someone looking to turn a profit."
Although I do occasionally find other voices online, big social media has been very effective in silencing too many of them. Their algorithms-tuned-for-profit and use of dark patterns has made it increasingly difficult to hear the helpful voices over the ugliness and nonsense.
And we've allowed them to improperly use Section 230 as a shield to protect them from responsibility for the harms they have knowingly created.
My #ActuallyAutistic friends, if you would be so kind to check out this post…
For the past decade and a half, I’ve already been treating most online content as “noise and not information.”
How has it been for you?
I’m saying this because not only this new AI hype was ridiculous to be since it’s beginning (because of course I was way ahead of the general population in following the advance of LLMs for the past five years), even way before that online content and discourse had already degraded into a never ending stream of buzzwords and marketing gobbledygook. To me at least.
So I’m imploring @actuallyautistic peeps, how long since you have been (if that is the case) disillusioned with whatever online content had to offer?
Tues 9/12 - Burford Makes 37,000%, Microsoft to Defend Copilot Customers in Copyright Suits, Conservatives Want CFPB Gutted by SCOTUS and Column Tuesday on Low-income Energy Credits
#BurfordCapital making 37,000% on its legal claim investment, #Microsoft promises to defend customers from some #AI#copyright suits, conservatives hope the #CFPB gets gutted by #SCOTUS and Column Tuesday on low income energy tax credit bonuses.