Why the fuck would they invent this? Goddamn I hate the business world.
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Surprised it wasn’t youtube. Sometimes the AI voice is good enough I don’t realize it’s an autodub, atleast untill I notice the mouth is moving wrong or the text they show is a different language.
This would solve that basically, which is both cool and a bit scary, more scary if it is used in AR and in the real world.
I live in Québec. I’m anglophone but can speak French and do some things in French, so I also get Youtube ads in French and English. I saw an ad that show the same people speaking French and English, in places where it makes little sense for them to know French, and their accents are just…correct but it doesn’t line up?
… 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 people make this? There is NO WAY this won’t be abused.
That’s why they made it
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.
It was likely done for censorship. Now, instead of expletives, you’ll speak of puppies and rainbows rather than reality.
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.
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.
of course it will be abused for fake mediaIt will make media better!
“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.”
Who would have thought AI would be used for this?
Everyone, forever.
Yup, it’s the nightmares explored in every scifi book with it as a subject. Basically, if AI ever achieves sentience, or we grant it since we’re it’s enslavers, it will be another non-biological species.
Or grants it? Even scifi has explored “what is sentience?” Hell, it’s one that AI-themed authors explore, like Cmdr. Data.
Everyone, forever.
That’s why it was M$ now. They go for trvial.
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.
For years we’ve been told to watch the full clip for context. Now two people can watch the same live event, hear completely different words, and both have video evidence. Microsoft has somehow found a way to make »I saw it with my own eyes« even less reliable.
This was always the goal of AI
Yup, been saying for years that this is one of the reasons it’s a fundamentally fascist technology.
Pssst, you’re replying to an AI bot.
Maybe so, but not everyone reading is a bot.
That’s part of the AI push. Those in power want to retain it - now they can fabricate evidence, or claim real evidence is faked.
Bonus round: when they make it so that everything has to be stored in the cloud, they can just modify or delete stuff at will.
We have [always|never] been at war with [eastasia|eurasia]
Hey - I know I’ve asked this before, but you must have forgotten to reply. Are you a real person?
There is a real person behind that account, but it appears to be mostly a bot.
I’ll keep asking until they answer
But think how much easier it will be for the Ministry of Truth to retroactively update all the telescreen feed archives!
I don’t see this being any good for anyone.
But I am really pissed off that this can be patented. Even looking at the patent itself doesn’t look like anything new, its a series of flow charts.
I see nothing novel or patent worthy here at all.
I … see this being … good for anyone.
… I am really [happy] that this can be patended. … Lookting at the patent itself it looks like [something] new, its a series of flow charts!
I see [something] novel or patent worthy here … !
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Oh, it could be good if used responsibly. But that is not what is going to happen, isn’t it?
(real time translation and giving people a way of dodging the social stigma attached to speech impediments are fine. Making sure someone with a stuffed nose sounds normal on Video is fine too. It could also be used to modify in-game videos to reference actions made by players, reducing the need to store multiple variants of a scene!)
If I’m being totally honest, I’m so glad it’s patented. I hope they defend the patent aggressively so nobody else can do this. Even if Microsoft has this capability, defending the patent will limit the scope of its usage.
Bonus points if they defend it aggressively, yet barely utilize it themselves. I’m afraid that may just be wishful thinking.
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.
The patent also posits that such a tool could be used to remove filler words like “um” or “ah” from live speech, or to erase stutters or speech impediments.
That’s kind of fucked up. Let people speak for themselves; don’t “”“improve”“” their speech without permission
and it also makes it more difficult for people with speech impediments to speak. Imagine seeing absolutely no one have any speech quirks or anything and have some of your own, would you feel secure about opening your mouth? Then there is this handydandy tool, now you are mentally chained to it to even speak.
LLM are just new chain on our necks that make us less free and able.
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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.
Surely the researchers noticed the skulls on their caps and asked themselves if they were the baddies?
What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.
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.
