You aren’t “[creating] a novel voice from scratch, that’s just not how the technology works. It needs a human to extract data from and compile something intelligible.
Much like with art AIs, the outputs don’t necessarily have to slavishly mimic the style of any of the inputs. Train an AI with a bunch of different voices and then you can get it to generate a novel voice that isn’t a copy of any specific one that it was trained on.
Using computer generation to imitate a person using their own biometric data should be illegal unless explicit consent is given.
This doesn’t affect what I’ve said. If imitating a specific human comes with a bunch of annoying legal and economic hassles, then don’t imitate a specific human. Create a novel voice and you’re free of all of that.
And yes, the technology lets you create a novel voice different from any of the ones it was trained on. I do know how these things work.
You should not be able to use someone else’s biometrics (voice is one) to generate content without their consent. Your example would be similarly illegal because it is unethically using a persons personal data without their consent for commercial or other purposes.
It’s “novel” in that it’s an approximation of all its input data, tweaked to match the specifics of the request given. It still needs to use the data of real people or it can’t create anything. You have a surface level understanding if you don’t understand the importance of that seeding data.
You don’t seem to value consent when it comes to the systematic harvesting of personal data for another persons benefit. I’ve been very clear that the issue is the lack of consent combined with current and future capabilities of the technology.
Much like with art AIs, the outputs don’t necessarily have to slavishly mimic the style of any of the inputs. Train an AI with a bunch of different voices and then you can get it to generate a novel voice that isn’t a copy of any specific one that it was trained on.
This doesn’t affect what I’ve said. If imitating a specific human comes with a bunch of annoying legal and economic hassles, then don’t imitate a specific human. Create a novel voice and you’re free of all of that.
And yes, the technology lets you create a novel voice different from any of the ones it was trained on. I do know how these things work.
You should not be able to use someone else’s biometrics (voice is one) to generate content without their consent. Your example would be similarly illegal because it is unethically using a persons personal data without their consent for commercial or other purposes.
It’s “novel” in that it’s an approximation of all its input data, tweaked to match the specifics of the request given. It still needs to use the data of real people or it can’t create anything. You have a surface level understanding if you don’t understand the importance of that seeding data.
You don’t seem to value consent when it comes to the systematic harvesting of personal data for another persons benefit. I’ve been very clear that the issue is the lack of consent combined with current and future capabilities of the technology.