{"id":3292,"date":"2023-08-19T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:44:05","slug":"voice-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/19\/voice-stealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This essay is slightly tangential to my usual fare, but it is prompted by a most amazing video that convinced me that the impact of AI this time is not hype, but rather a real threat to our society.\u00a0 I found the video<\/a> at 3 Quarks Daily and it was of Johnny Cash singing a song called \u201cBarbie Girl\u201d to the tune of his trademark Folsom Prison Blues\u2014only it wasn\u2019t the late Johnny Cash (1932\u20132003), it was AI!<\/p>\n

See Voice Stealing<\/a><\/p>\n

(Update 11\/2\/2023)<\/strong>\u00a0 I was wondering why the seeming lack of interest in this post, and then I tried the link to the video and found it has been removed from the public.\u00a0 There must be a reason, probably copyright issues somewhere, so even though I got a copy when it was public, I don’t think I should post it.\u00a0 This is really too bad, since it is in incredible example of what may be our dystopian future.\u00a0 I just rooted around and found another link that seems to be working.\u00a0 I have updated the text above.<\/p>\n

(Update 5\/4\/2024)<\/strong>\u00a0 It gets worse.\u00a0 The Atlantic article \u201cMy Journey Inside the Voice-Clone Factory<\/a>\u201d shows what happens when voice-cloning is combined with image-cloning and OpenAI language models.\u00a0 It is a dystopian nightmare beyond imagining.<\/p>\n

(Update 12\/28\/2025)<\/strong>\u00a0 And worse.\u00a0 Two recent, short articles show plausible scenarios for the rapidly approaching future.\u00a0 The first, \u201cDigital Doppelganger \u2014 You and \u2018You\u2019<\/a> \u201d, dramatizes how the delegation of your public persona to AI apps ends up replacing you.<\/p>\n

And the second, \u201cHow AI Is Taking Us Back To The Dark Ages<\/a>\u201d, shows how our increasing reliance on AI is delegating our independent thinking, so hard-won in the Enlightenment, back to a central authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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