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So i have to stop doing my Morgan Freeman impersonation at parties? That impersonation has been trained on his movies and speeches.

jl6 3y ago
Doing an impression of someone in private, for fun, with no reasonable possibility of being confused for the original… seems very different to creating voice model outputs with the intent to deceive for financial or political gain.
- diggan 3y ago
  This is something I feel like gets forgotten in this AI debates too often. It matters not what you could potentially do with a tool but rather what you actually did with the tool and the consequences of what you did. "Fraud" charges already can capture a lot of these things without additional regulating around what models you can legally train in the first place.
- sandworm101 3y ago
  The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson had an on-stage robot voiced by a Morgan Freeman impersonation, a very good one. That show was created to make money and I am sure that a great many people up that late were occasionally fooled by the impersonation. Saturday night live had Tina Fay impersonate Sarah Palin. She did it so well that it even fooled the real Sarah Palin's media team into using images from SNL as images of the actual candidate. Saturday Night live created this fake for profit and, arguably, for political reasons. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/fox-news-mixes-up-sarah-palin-with-tina-fey-20110607-1fq30.html https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/fox-news-m...
  - jl6 3y ago
    I imagine the comedic context made it clear there was no intent to deceive.
booleandilemma 3y ago
I read your comment in his voice.
fzeroracer 3y ago
Presumably if you were saying you were Morgan Freeman and acting on behalf of Morgan Freeman and damaging the image of Morgan Freeman, I would imagine you would be asked to stop rather quickly yes.
throwaway290 3y ago
Fun at a party is not running a commercial ML system. Maybe when ML model starts having fun at parties you can revisit this question.
tremon 3y ago
If your party trick is to call Morgan Freeman's bank and wire a few thousand dollars to the birthday boy^Wperson, yes you should stop doing that.
- sandworm101 3y ago
  If that works, he really needs to switch to a better bank.

jl6 3y ago

Doing an impression of someone in private, for fun, with no reasonable possibility of being confused for the original… seems very different to creating voice model outputs with the intent to deceive for financial or political gain.

diggan 3y ago
This is something I feel like gets forgotten in this AI debates too often. It matters not what you could potentially do with a tool but rather what you actually did with the tool and the consequences of what you did. "Fraud" charges already can capture a lot of these things without additional regulating around what models you can legally train in the first place.
sandworm101 3y ago
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson had an on-stage robot voiced by a Morgan Freeman impersonation, a very good one. That show was created to make money and I am sure that a great many people up that late were occasionally fooled by the impersonation. Saturday night live had Tina Fay impersonate Sarah Palin. She did it so well that it even fooled the real Sarah Palin's media team into using images from SNL as images of the actual candidate. Saturday Night live created this fake for profit and, arguably, for political reasons. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/fox-news-mixes-up-sarah-palin-with-tina-fey-20110607-1fq30.html https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/fox-news-m...
- jl6 3y ago
  I imagine the comedic context made it clear there was no intent to deceive.

booleandilemma 3y ago

I read your comment in his voice.

fzeroracer 3y ago

Presumably if you were saying you were Morgan Freeman and acting on behalf of Morgan Freeman and damaging the image of Morgan Freeman, I would imagine you would be asked to stop rather quickly yes.

throwaway290 3y ago

Fun at a party is not running a commercial ML system. Maybe when ML model starts having fun at parties you can revisit this question.

tremon 3y ago

If your party trick is to call Morgan Freeman's bank and wire a few thousand dollars to the birthday boy^Wperson, yes you should stop doing that.

sandworm101 3y ago
If that works, he really needs to switch to a better bank.