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We did not provide such a demo in part to hinder nefarious uses of the technology.
by kdavis 5y ago
We did not provide such a demo in part to hinder nefarious uses of the technology.
- crumpled 5y agoHonestly, how much of a hinderance is that? A person could just supply a recording of another person, couldn't they?
- trump_tts 5y agoYes, it's pretty easy to play back a video as the input text and then generate a reasonable fascimile. Here's Trump: https://sndup.net/zkbg/ https://sndup.net/zkbg/
- gruez 5y agobut it looks like you provide the source code here? https://github.com/coqui-ai/tts https://github.com/coqui-ai/tts. How much of a hindrance are you hoping to add?
- BoorishBears 5y agoDiscourages low-hanging, hit-and-run usage that's likely to get their site shut down. If someone wants to fake a statement there are already 100 ways to do it. Not making their servers the ones doing the deed puts a meaningful barrier in place for more casual misuse. And for serious cases like impersonation on a large scale, the resources are there to likely do better than this instant feedback model can.
- xwdv 5y agoNoble, but the genie will be out of that bottle soon enough, if not already.
- 1f60c 5y agoYou could provide a demo with a fixed prompt that will (for example) always read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article about avocados.