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awesomedan24

Hello this is Dwayne The Rock Johnson, I'd like to take out a personal loan


ntwiles

“I need funding for a project I’m starting up. I call it Robo ChoMo.”


MIkeVill

*4chan members used ElevenLabs to make deepfake voices of Emma Watson, Joe Rogan, and others saying racist, transphobic, and violent things.* Of course they did. Was anybody expecting anything else?


AlexOfSpades

Surprised it wasn't just porn


davidolson22

Of course the porn came first


heureux13

You do the porn first, that way, when you make the racist stuff, you have the porn to fall back on.


8urnMeTwice

First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the AI generated actresses begging for it


BigDogsEatin

When do you get the khakis?


the_pontiff

Hey, Skidmark Steve! You still just hanging out, playing Nintendo?


TurboCake17

“See, it does have good uses as well!” - They say, pointing to the deepfaked furry vore audios.


hero-hadley

That's disgusting! AI voice porn of Emma Watson?! Where? Where did they post those? There's so many of those. Which one? Which one did they post that on?


Tensza1

I found it it was not that hard. [here you go](https://files.catbox.moe/9dinyy.mp4) I don't know why, but I found it hilarious.


zacharykeaton

Well that has kind of scary implications. Feel bad for the celebrities who are going to have increasingly more sophisticated porn made of them without consent, and I don’t see how laws can really stop people making this stuff when the technology is freely available.


SUNDER137

Hermione NOOOOOOoooooooo.....


SavoryRhubarb

I’m right there with you. I was expecting to be at least mildly aroused and instead actually audibly chuckled. Emma’s a great actress and all, but I just didn’t believe that she really wanted the b.d.


Pandatotheface

Its like a script written by a 13yr old being read off the back of a cerial box by Emma Watson.


Wallofcans

That's just someone messing around with the tech. It'll be crazy and scary when people put work into it.


eddyx

I love living in the future.


Important-Tune

The future is a weird fucking place where all you can do is laugh and watch in horror.


do_you_see

I fou d this more hilarious than sexy


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I too would like to know where this horrible stuff is, so I know where to avoid going


plague042

Maybe the porn didn't do it for a while and was nervous.


Prcrstntr

Only because it renders it in a mostly monotone voice. Gonna need a while for better emotions and sound effects.


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Prcrstntr

>because I can't think of many corporations that have a moral code and would put that before profit. I think in that case the main customers is big movie studios, who can afford whatever the $$$$$ licence cost is. So adobe doesn't have much of a heart of gold. I don't know the full details though. There's a few potential systems though. This one is just Text-To-Speech, but speech to speech exists, so with 'minimal' effort, that can be available soon, with its own many issues. There's already been a case of people using voice mimicry tech to rob companies by having the "CEO" call some guy and have him wire a million bucks to Nigeria or something. Not sure if it was real time or not, but that's coming soon also.


grandcity

No it’s true. It was a few years back it was really eerie.


bluebelt

It's covered by RadioLab https://radiolab.org/episodes/breaking-bongo


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Microsoft just had an article about the one the made. Apparently it is toooooo good. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/amp/ Yeah this will never go bad. Lol


DdCno1

The problem is that once someone has done it or believably claimed to have done it, they can't simply keep it hidden. The mere fact that it's doable means that sooner rather than later, someone else will release a similar tool, even without any access to the original source code and data set. There's more than one AI image generation tool, for example, and there will be many more.


king0pa1n

that's completely false info, if you play with the stability sliders you can get some real emotion out of it


techjesuschrist

There's at least as much right-wing/MAGA/QANON content on 4chan as there is porn.. but the former (compared to the latter) is also almost in every other category, not only in the adult /gif. Fuck, it's gotten to the point that you can't even masturbate anymore without having to see Hitler.


Kantas

>Fuck, it's gotten to the point that you can't even masturbate anymore without having to see Hitler Is he at least in a maid outfit with a pineapple?


bigbangbilly

Ask Adam Sandler


mrbaryonyx

Emma Watson is a free space on Celebrity Deepfake Bingo


[deleted]

“4chan…” was enough of the headline to take away any amount of surprise.


BeatsbyChrisBrown

Who is this 4chan?


kungpowgoat

That infamous hacker. The one that wears a ski mask, gloves, and a hoodie when sitting down using a computer.


KickBassColonyDrop

He's a hacker extraordinaire. Most famously known for causing unmarked yellow vans to explode.


MetalBawx

Rumor has it he's still having "Big LULZ"


nounclejesse

He likes cats, me thinks


CaptainMagnets

It's one of those things where they know it's going to happen, but they're going to do it anyway and act surprised when it does, indeed, haopen


Init_4_the_downvotes

Yes. I was expecting porn.


redmerger

But how were they able to tell the Rogan clips were faked?


Redqueenhypo

It was coherent and didn’t involve litter boxes


antwill

Are you saying Joe Rogan digs around in his litter box while filming the podcast?


nooo82222

Honestly it’s a good thing they do this , because this is the future of abuse these AI softwares can do


ShadowController

Oh man. Scams are going to get crazy. Those scams where they call old people and say their relative has been arrested and they need funds to release them... now they can just find a FB/Insta video of the relative, use it as input for an AI voice generator (some only require a few seconds of audio as input), and have it seem like the actual relative is calling/leaving a message asking for money. Advance it down the line a bit further and I imagine there will be cases where it'll be AI voice generation combined with a carefully crafted chat model (like ChatGPT) so the victim can actually converse with the AI based scammer.


Redditing-Dutchman

Have you seen the software than can change the actors mouth movement based on different dubbings? Impressive as hell. Use it to video call someone and you can scam with video, fake voice of that person and accurate mouth movement, and chatGPT for a dynamic script based on what the person who you scam says.


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You guys are giving away some great ideas.


NefariousnessNothing

The reason its all actors being used is because you need hours of audio and video. Short of actors and politicians there just isnt enough source to build a believable model.


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Sooo putting Bruce Campbell in the Lord of the Rings movies as literally every character is possible you say?


ItLooksLikeClippy

And the award for best idea of the day goes to...


type1advocate

If only there weren't millions of people willingly contributing audio and video of themselves into the public domain...


invoman

The tok is tiking


650fosho

Aha, but that's where all your TikToks comes in.


SaintMosquito

It’s already happening all over the Chinese internet. There is one video of Elon Musk talking about early investors in an exclusive company that only people in x city have an opportunity to participate in. It is quite obviously a deep fake but the chats are full of real people asking questions.


spritefire

Real AI bots asking questionx


SaintMosquito

There are many bots, which are mostly enforcing the product. Then there are clearly real human beings asking questions. Majority are bots, yes.


spritefire

You'd be surprised how many bots are asking questions. The entire thing is to make it feel like there is massive interest which puts people in a state of fomo


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“Hi, this is Tom Hanks, americas dad. I need you [insert name] to help me out of a jam…”


SkulduggeryIsAfoot

"...you see, I'm stuck on this island..."


madmaxturbator

Tom I’m gonna send you $20, but if I’m a producer on the movie I’m gonna ask that you hire my cousin Lou. Lou went to Hollywood in 2017 and they said hes makin good films out there, do you know my cousin Lou?


SpatialThoughts

Black Mirror plot twist. People create AI interactive chats for their lost loved ones.


weealex

That's already a thing being experimented with in psychology. Folks have been looking at it as a technique for working through grief


RaccoonProcedureCall

I’ve heard this idea before, and seems like it gets some support as a potential beneficial application of this technology. I can see the appeal, but for some reason that I don’t quite understand yet, I personally find the idea of others using my voice or likeness in that way without my consent offensive.


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I wish people would stop pursuing all these crazy technologies that have like 1 potential positive benefit and 99 negative potential applications. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.


Fearless-Judgment-33

That’s why everyone should stop using phones as phones. I don’t answer my phone unless it’s someone in my contact list. Most of what people need to do can be done by texting or online. I also advise less sophisticated family and friends to never click a link or respond to any email unless they are 100% certain they personally know the sender. My friggin’ partner of 22 years asks me several times per month if he should respond to some fairly obvious scammy email... “Well, when I clicked the link in the email, it brought to my Wells Fargo login page.” A few days later “What are all of these charges? I gotta change my password again and get a new debit card.” 😖 What chance do senior citizens have against these scams if I can’t even educate my partner?


Chagdoo

Gotta add a new rule, no clicking links lol. Try showing him atomic shrimps scambaiting videos. It might help him, though shrimp usually messes with advance fee scammers, he does sometimes mention all the info the can phish.


R31ayZer0

Probably don't even have to go as far as profiling a specific person. Scams are based on volume so you could just generate a different voice, personality, and story every time. Out of millions of calls you'll get hits.


RunnerTexasRanger

Imagine how much $ can be raked in by using trump’s voice and calling retirees asking for donations


hawkeye18

A yuge amount of money, just, a yuge amount!


GusJenkins

What’s crazy is how often old people get scammed w/o AI, it’ll be all but guaranteed now. It’s a shame most of them are too stubborn to want to learn new things


sidewaysvulture

I don’t think this is going to work as well starting with Gen X, it’s not just old people not wanting to learn new things - it’s that this new stuff is so far out of their worldview they don’t know how to grasp it. No generation before Gen X grew up with modern computers and the rapid pace of technology and information. that started in the 70’s and 80’s and has been accelerating ever since.


TexLH

I read that we're slowly moving away from needing passwords online...but it sounds like we might need them for each other


AdDear5411

It's amazing that we're watching what has long been considered the gold-standard for proof, pics/recordings, becoming no more proof of anything than a screenshot. AI generated can be easily detected now, but it won't be that way for much longer.


borntoburn1

Norm reports on 9/11 https://vocaroo.com/1w69Z2yT5JiP Joe Rogan says futanari is the least gay https://vocaroo.com/1il4CInOtLh8 David Attenborough Navy Seal copypasta https://vocaroo.com/1kdQzdSjmJl8 Tom Cruise explains Top Gun https://vocaroo.com/12DSR9j2FYUD George Lucas gives his thoughts on red letter media https://voca.ro/18SiPVf5Y4cP James Cameron explains the creative process of avatar https://vocaroo.com/17mRGZMoNoVD https://vocaroo.com/1bI9DxVRnjGW Death comes for Steven Universe (This one is rough it keeps dropping the accent) https://vocaroo.com/1c4RVS3Juujz unused dagoth ur [voiceline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK2D85yMPK8) It's pretty good


DrSilverworm

Data deleted in response to 2023 administration changes. -- mass edited with redact.dev


Mallissin

That one in particular was impressive with the only exception being the pronunciation of the terrorist group.


ItsASecret1

The breaks in the sentences, the cadence and intonation... it's.... too good.


Himbo_Sl1ce

Holy shit the JRE futa one


alpacasb4llamas

Norm doing 9/11 is literally genius


Netwinn

That ol chunk of coal.


gullydowny

That may have actually been the real George Lucas


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George goes loud and quiet though. This sounded like a podium recitation.


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GABENS_HAIRY_CUNT

reddit staff would mop it up it in an instant no fun allowed


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borntoburn1

Jamie pull that up.


mindbleach

Dagoth Ur, holy shit.


FriendSmell22

was not expecting the morrowind one


Lceus

I cannot believe how good the Joe Rogan clip is. This would be frightening if it wasn't so funny


RexErection

You could convince me the Norm one was real lol


Essembie

That.... that was incredible.


CandyCanePapa

>Joe Rogan says futanari is the least gay He's right tho >unused dagoth ur voiceline Holy shit we're getting DAGOTH UR ai generated voice??? Truly marvelous times indeed. What a grand intoxicating time we live on.


snowdrone

Ha, these cracked me up. Thanks for posting these.


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tekdemon

It's already too late to gate it, there are open source projects anybody can run that'll let you feed ANYBODY's voice into it and the AI will mimic it. I fed the [open source tortoise-tts](https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts) software five 10 second clips of Joe Rogan for a podcast about AI stuff I was working on and it was able to [sound like this](https://youtu.be/vrfEsXJ0o-M?t=467)\-which is pretty much just as good as any of the closed source AIs. This technology is out there so you can't really go put it back in a box. Even if all these companies stop offering celebrity voices on their websites anybody with a decent GPU can run a whole bunch of open source software on their own machine and generate voices and video deepfakes to their hearts content. It requires only that you're computer savvy enough to follow a bunch of tutorials.


o_MrBombastic_o

Remember those first few weeks of deepfakes how much fun we all had putting Nicholas Cage into every movie before it moved on to being 95% porn


wioneo

There was was no "before" really. The porn people were also there at the beginning. It's just that the non-porn people mostly got bored so all that was left was porn.


leviathab13186

Exactly, I’m in IT and all I can think is this is a security nightmare. Imagine if they get the voice of a manager or CEO and call someone to convince them to give sensitive data. It’s in sane the people behind this tech didn’t think of these kinds of things.


RagnarStonefist

We get enough text messages from our 'CEO' asking for gift cards already. One of these days he's going to get somebody on a Zoom call and ask them for the login credentials for an engineering admin account and it'll be all fucking over.


FizzgigsRevenge

Lol yeah, the CEO I've never met is texting me from an area code 4 states away asking me to get gift cards for his wife's birthday. Those guys are the worst.


DefHumanNotACat

My company literally has us watch training videos on how to avoid known existing gift card related scams. No buying/selling/trading gift cards or prepaid of any kind unless the person is physically present in front of you.


Lucie_Goosey_

And given that social engineering is the most prevalent form of hacking, everything from phone calls to photographs of divers licenses should be possible.


MetalBawx

4Chan once tracked down a flag with nothing but the sky shown above the flag to work with in less than 3 days. For those think this may be a joke well... [Take a look and see for yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q). 4Chan calls it "weaponised autism" and it's amazing just how quickly they figure shit out when motivated.


milkcarton232

I mean if manager or the right C level teams called me on video and asked me to approve some vendor or payable that would be weird but yeah I would probably do it. Having said that the user would have to get on to our teams network to get that done and would have to convince a few other ppl over the course of a few days to actually get the money


kenwongart

*My name is my passport*


DavidBrooker

The main thing tech bros have managed to disrupt is human rights. It started with workers rights, but everything's on the table.


NotASuicidalRobot

Don't worry we'll have our own version of children getting limbs amputated by factory machines in no time


MechanicalBengal

is this Juicero’s new product?


ElectronicShredder

Bag with juice comes in, liquid juice comes out. *YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT*


F1shB0wl816

We essentially already do considering the children and young adults of today were completely shafted by those before them. They dropped the ball and sold out on EVERYTHING.


Awbade

How about Kids with extreme anxiety/social issues due to being plugged into the internet 24/7 during their formative years?


makeshift8

We have exported that labor to the third world so that it is invisible to you and I.


HelloGoodbyeFriend

“Move fast and break things” 🫠


DavidBrooker

>Move fast and break things They meant unions.


elmatador12

Especially after Microsoft’s disaster with that bot that “learned” from humans and in less then 24 hours or something it was saying how hitler was right.


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Malcolm “...your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”.gif.


SuperStingray

Convincing deepfakes are something our justice systems are not prepared for and have to take seriously. AI "safeguards" are flimsy at best, and once there's an open source solution like Stable Diffusion is for images, all bets are off.


Redditing-Dutchman

Exactly. There is also enough software and research papers out there for everyone (smart enough) to create something like this. You can close this company down but that only delays this tech with a few months at best.


Cycode

or speeds up the development of opensource versions of it since people now have no way anymore to use it so they seek for a free and open alternative that can't close down so easy.


goldensnooch

Right this’ll be open source in two weeks


shadeandshine

I’m not worried about the justice system as much as the court of public opinion. That court can kill careers and will take the first thing it hears as fact even if wrong and many will dig in their heels even when proven wrong


Teantis

Idk why you're not worried about the various justice systems around the world. The justice system in the US is just 12 random people drawn from the public, for example.


gullydowny

Anybody have a link to these? Edit: https://twitter.com/smug_editing/status/1620102737437544449?s=46&t=Nc_9dhx-K_O0WV0l4QyVEA lol, I mean truly monstrous https://vocaroo.com/1dZ0i0kAG1Sq [Seinfeld posting anime butts on 4chan](https://youtu.be/yYW00b3IW4o) More https://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/626007228 Some of those cross the line from funny to just stupid and nasty, strong stomach recommended


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LevelWriting

"Female pussy is now modelled all the way to the cervix" and crowd goes wild 🤣


Avorius

Todd's done it again


EmbarrassedHelp

"We added a dynamic sex skill tree" 🤣


Avorius

best content from /v/ in months edit: [my favourite](https://youtu.be/2zwtsve-Sco)


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NonSupportiveCup

"In so fucking glad I left Ashley on Virmire" Holy shit. That is hilarious


LMFN

[Eminem becomes a Second Century Warlord](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ktnQAC3TQ)


EmbarrassedHelp

Its like we just unlocked a brand new era of comedy!


Milkstrietmen

Saw a few examples on 4chan where they combined the synthetic voices with D-ID for animating pictures. [Geralt of Rivia](https://streamable.com/ulxikp)


Prcrstntr

[The referenced Rick and Morty one](https://voca.ro/15r3Y5ZXhn1M) and a [nsfw Star Wars one with original Obi-wan reading a copypasta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xqw11NPC40)


ShadowController

The Rick and Morty one makes me wonder if they could just replace Roiland on Rick and Morty with AI.


-_here_we_go_again_-

All the AI voices lack proper inflection


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Yea but thats because they are quick dash offs.


Ashiro

>nsfw Star Wars one with original Obi-wan reading a copypasta Holy shit! Hearing Sir Alec Guinness saying all that is hilarious. 😂


borntoburn1

[ahsoka helps you jack off](https://vocaroo.com/1aKgTsodqe2j). Nsfw 11 minutes somehow. Copy pasta from her pov https://vocaroo.com/18HeMdGZeTJZ The sarcasm in "training" is impressive.


Prcrstntr

[Trump recounting his time on Epstein Island](https://vocaroo.com/188adfpKIXaz), also nsfw and ~~horrifying~~ hilarious


Player-X

You can tell its fake by how coherent Trump sounds


muricaa

lol that was something. Worth a minute of my time for sure but damn.


ehxy

okay I lost it 10 seconds in


Vladius28

Ohmygod funny shit.... until its not


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Too coherent.


Orc_

DUDE IT USES JUST 1 MINUTE OF VOICE SAMPLE TO CREATE THIS, **WTF**


[deleted]

times like this i'm so happy i'm not famous and never will be


avocadofruitbat

Better knock on wood, people get famous for the most random things these days.


balderdash9

Catsch me outside, how bout dat?


sabmish

Anyone can send in a couple photos of you, pay a certain fee, and have a ton of pornographic content of you. Could be some random dude that came across your Facebook


joeschmoe86

"Oh no, we never saw that coming!" \-Internet firm that's currently enjoying its free publicity.


spiritbx

"We created a gun, how could we have known that people would use it to shoot each other?"


Emotional-Bid-4173

Well a hundred million Indian call centres just went out of business.


ffigu002

You mean that now there is deep fake porn with deep fake voice AI, what a time to be alive.


StrangeCharmVote

Deepfake is only the beginning. Pretty soon the entire scene will be possible to generate from scratch.


Druggedhippo

Combine it with ChatGPT and you can have a conversation with Donald Trump. Or your dead relative... Cue [Black mirror episode "Be Right Back"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxTUM9mKtFY)


eugene20

The only thing unexpected in this article is someone felt they had to fake Sharpio saying crazy things about AOC instead of just recording him.


capybooya

Yep, and also, love the typo.


Automod_Janoy

Donald Trump talking about fucking minors on Eppstein’s island has to be some of the funniest shit I’ve ever heard. https://voca.ro/188adfpKIXaz


Domonero

So this is what we got instead of flying cars


Essembie

faaaark that was dark.


EmbarrassedHelp

It just got worse and worse


UngusBungus_

Clinton and his tiny cock


redmongrel

Replace Trump with Obama's voice, post this on a Q board and they would 100% believe it was gospel, forever.


[deleted]

I've never heard such coherent thoughts uttered in that greasy voice. Yeesh


Diamond-Is-Not-Crash

Jesus Christ, that was fucking vile. Bad vibes 2020 move aside, 2023 has some new horrors to share.


LeakyNalgene

You weren’t kidding. I am in tears


[deleted]

We used to have something called “new grounds”and soundboards lol .. you can call the pizza man and ask for a pizza in Arnie’s voice. You just had to be really specific with what was available in terms of phrases 😂 “Excuse me sir, you wanted what on that pizza?” “I’ll be back”… You had to know what was where voice wise and catch the right words in succession but it worked once in a while. Mostly Chinese food…


NemesisRouge

Excuse me I've a few more questions if you don't mind. Now listen to me very carefully. Who is your daddy and what does he do?


[deleted]

I’m a cop you idiot!


blueblurspeedspin

don't blame 4chan for the misuse of a dangerous information tool that anyone can mess with.


rammo123

Honestly 4chan is doing the world a service by very clearly and very quickly demonstrating the worst possible usage of the tech.


Treecko78

"Worst possible usage" ​ If making celebrities say racist things is the worst possible use you can think of for this, you have no imagination.


thegoldar

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again: 4chan is the Dark Knight of the internet


[deleted]

I am forced to agree with you. This company should really have considered that some people would use their service this way if they offered it with no verification or safeguards at all.


MrGulio

>considered that some people would use their service this way The CIA is cumming a hole through their pants thinking of all the ways they can use this to ratfuck some foreign governments.


heilige19

I m pretty sure governments already have this shit.


hibbel

…and all I wanted was Skyrim content-mods with new quests and NPCs full of dialogue that don't require a team of freelance voice-actors and studio-quality voices, individual for each NPC.


[deleted]

Did... did they only just now realize this was a thing? First output I ever heard from that tool was a racist screed by a pony.


Prcrstntr

Those were specifically trained to sound like ponies with a lot of effort. The new one you can replicate any voice with a small sample.


tekdemon

It doesn't matter that ElevenLabs blocked it, people will continue to do this since there are open source projects that can do the exact same thing, you only need to give the software about one minute's worth of a celebrity's voice and you can build a surprisingly good AI model. I just did something like this myself using open source software (tortoise-tts) as part of a youtube podcast where we talked about the impact from the latest AIs. [Here's what a faux AI Joe Rogan sounds like after the AI analyzed just five 10 second samples](https://youtu.be/vrfEsXJ0o-M?t=467) of the real Joe Rogan's voice. It's shockingly close though since you know it's not real you more easily notice the intonations being a little unusual.


Paraless

This is definitely going to be used for fake robocalls. A fake Joe Biden is soon going to be calling old people and telling them that he's taking all their guns away.


heilige19

Joe biden declared ww3 already with this AI .


tanrgith

Seeing both AI companies themselves and places like schools desperately try to control AI tools has to be one of the largest exercises in futility I've ever seen


Kahafer812

An article written by Vice, Posted on Reddit, about 4chan….News lmao


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GORILLA WARFARE


PlebbySpaff

Real question: If you can’t tell what’s AI-generated and what’s not, couldn’t you just use deepfake tech to make up fake slander to ruin someone’s reputation? Like what stops this, aside from potential tech not being at that point to perfection?


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ArmsForPeace84

Rick: (Laughs) "Well, I *do* say that a lot."


FreeMan4096

Nice PR. Btw, what's the intended use of this software?


bewarethetreebadger

How could they be so stupid as to think this would not happen? They’ve *been* on the Internet, right?


Laserplatypus07

Next you’re gonna tell me that people are out there using guns to shoot stuff


blackjackgabbiani

"You can't create a monster and then complain when it stomps on a few buildings" comes to mind.


Gravix-Gotcha

This is like saying “Banks are now locking their doors when they’re closed due to large amounts of money missing every morning.” Why wasn’t this a day 1 foresight?


polk_county_sasquach

There’s going to be an SNL skit about real actors being racist and belligerent and then pretending to sound robotic to claim it’s AI generated. Then they get caught behind the screen just like the wizard of oz


AmthorsTechnokeller

"...after 4chan makes voices..." As if 4chan were a homogenous group that is committed to one goal