wow, way to go Microsoft. I am sure you market it with some bullshit like it helps you prevent live broadcast slips but we all know your wet dream is that fascist goverments line up in your doorstep to buy this tech. It will also remove any sort of accountability from news reporting. Someone can now say “Heil Hitler” on live tv and then say it was an AI fault. Not that they are fazed by such an expression in the US nowadays but you get the idea.
Or make anyone say ‘heil hitler’ to normalize the viewpoint and she everyone is ok with it.
Why the fuck would people make this? There is NO WAY this won’t be abused.
I’ve wanted something akin to this for D&D played online. I could activate my “elf NPC” mode and have an elf avatar redub what I’m saying in a distinct voice, inflections to match gender, etc. It’s a very niche usecase and I definitely don’t mind doing a mild voice and having everyone fill in with their imagination. But it would be cool if implemented well.
Problem is, once this exists, it’s a misinformation nightmare for the rest of the world.
If you’re not going to pretend to be a she-elf, then I’m not in to it.
I mean it has some SNL potential but that’s about it.
We could use it to make SNL funny?
All I’m sayin is that as long as you are using it openly for comedic effect it could be a hoot in some ways. I don’t want to comment specifically on SNL which I’m sure people have varying opinions on.
Of course the downside potential is greater than any upside.
That’s why they made it
It’s clearly to continue our long tradition of blackmail against our shitty members of society and smear campaigns against our good citizens.
We will keep playing the red vs blue game though.
Maybe next election will be a “bash at the beach” or cage match or something since our country is really just a large WWE production with nukes
What red v. blue? This is misinformation nonces versus honest citizens.
It was likely done for censorship. Now, instead of expletives, you’ll speak of puppies and rainbows rather than reality.
of course it will be abused for fake mediaIt will make media better!
A whole new level of fake news to come. Boomers won’t even know what hit 'em.
Not even just boomers anymore. I get AI slop shared with me by all ages. I just tell people now assume nothing online is real.
Is there really no legal liability for the defamation cases this seems sure to produce?
The tech it self is “fine” it’s just any use of it that is basically always going to be a problem.
You can’t make things proactively illegal because it could be used for illegal shit. Unless it can ONLY be used for illegal shit. And even then it’s iffy.
Else you end up killing progress. It’s stupid, but there’s not a great solution.
you can’t make things proactively illegal
What? We literally do that all the time.
How can this even be called progress? Progress of what? If anything, this regresses society at large.
I can see how this would be neat in places that dub a lot of their foreign media so lip/mouth movement actually fits the words spoken. It has always been a complete deal breaker for me with dubbed media because it instantly shatters my suspension of disbelief and makes it all feel like the shittiest amateur theater performance.
I’d still prefer subtitles, since verbal is half the acting. And even tone can convey emotion that turning it into simply a visual one leads to missing half the actor’s performance.
At that point it is better to watch dubbed animation.
I prefer subtiles as well. But there are many countries that dub almost everything to their native language, and I think having the mouth actually follow the dubbed audio would definitely improve the experience. The dubbed versions in e.g. Germany have loads of voice acting in it so it fits the emotion and vibe of the scenes, so this would just improve that.
I refuse to watch alive action dubs. That is what piracy is for if a country refuses to provide the original source material.
I mean, I agree I don’t watch them either because of the reason mentioned in my original comment. But I can still see the value this offers to all the people that do actually watch them.
I’d personally put more value in pushing people out of their comfort zone towards watching entire performances done by the actors and learning to read subtitles quicker.
Kind of funny that I watched Dark in German, but if it were an english production German people would be watching it dubbed.
“If we didn’t create the evil misinformation bot, someone else would have. You should be happy it was a massive corporation that controls this patent, not some soulest unethical entity whose motives are profit over everything. That was a close one. Phew.”
Even when the goal isn’t misinformation…
Removing filler words, personal and colloquial terms, replacing words for more appropriate ones according to an “internet search”.
Who would be subjected to that willingly? Why even use a real human in the process at this point?
I’m cool with having YouTube videos show the right word in huge letters over the speaker when they happen to use a wrong word.
That’s not already patented?
Anyway. Just means that now voices of authority are just voices (again). Some things about Victorian ideas of law and authority were good. Some bad, like that these things don’t extend to barbaric areas of the world, those are to make money selling stuff and growing cotton.
This is in some sense feedback to radio, mass media and the internet, as devices of propaganda.
Provided, of course, everyone knows that such things can be done, but honestly they already know.
… isn’t this already a thing?
I thought this was already done for dubs?
Yeah… how can they patent this. It already exists.
this is also altering faces and mouth movements to match the new spoken words.
Isn’t that what a deep fake is essentially?
? They can patent it the way patents have always worked: Unique processes. Patents are not for vague ideas, they are for specific processes.
For example: ‘The Steam engine’ was never patented—anyone can make energy from steam and sell that. What was patented was a specific way of creating energy via steam, and you can’t use that method without infringing on IP.
Why the fuck would they invent this? Goddamn I hate the business world.
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What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.
If it can be done, they will do it. Power is unconstrained by ethics, empathy, or morality. Never assume that anyone in power shares these traits with the rest of us, they do not.
The only thing that constrains power is enforced laws with teeth.
Guillotines. Heads rolling.
There is no other way at this point.
In America, we don’t enforce the law on those rich enough to pay congress.
The death of language
I hope it’s granted. That would at least bring one kind of limitation for this into the world.
So someone saw ‘the Capture’ and thought “that’s a great idea”.
I hate the patent system so much. There’s already software that does this, all they did was add the word “live” in front. So now they own every live broadcast translation even though the techs been out to do it for a solid 2 years.
Patents aren’t given for what they do. They are given for how they do it. Two patents can exist for the same thing they do. But you cannot have two patents for the same mechanism by which they do it.
That being said, if the patent is “make AI do it”… I’m not sure that is patent-worthy.
