YouTube Launches Experimental AI Feature With Voice Clones of Major Artists

At some point in the last decade, the ~~ostensive~~ ostensible goal of automation evolved from savings us from unwanted labor to keeping us from ever doing anything.

It says something important about this "revolution" that it's starting with replacement/replication of art, not labor or manual drudgery work.
- If this whole AI craze was actually about replacing labor, I honestly believe it would have started with firing and automating CEOs.
  I’m not even saying that as a “eat the rich” shtick - AI is great at analyzing huge datasets and determining a conclusion from the results. It would obviously need refinement, but that would probably be the major role I could see it immediately taking over.
- Except in fact we have just seen 2 centuries of drudgery automated. Have you seen a combine harvester?
- Does it? I'd imagine it just makes sense that the tech used for AI in art would be used for art.
  I don't see how it would be used for labor without a bunch of other steps.
  And as also pointed out, there's tech that, while not specifically "AI", is used to replace labor.
as a luddite you should know that automation‘s goal never was to save us from unwanted labour. But of course this would have to be accomplished first, before your second assumption can ever come true.
- I read an article (probably linked to from here) about how “Luddite” isn’t the insult many people think it is. Luddites weren’t dumb, or superstitious and needlessly afraid of technology.
  The historical Luddites were knowledgeable regarding technology. They weren’t anti-technology in general, they simply didn’t trust the rich and powerful to use it in a way that genuinely benefited society as a whole. Unfortunately, capitalists did what capitalists always do - they used machines to churn out inferior goods and cut worker pay. That’s why Luddites destroyed/sabotaged machines.
  After learning that, I started considering Luddite a compliment.
- Yeah I agree. That's why I said it was their ostensive goal. Their actual goal has only ever been profit.
You can still build a garden by hand even if it's commercially done with machines. It will be the same with drawing, voice acting, etc.
The problem is and has always been capitalism and the rich that abuse of it, not automation.
- Not if you're too busy between your two jobs manually training the LLM models and supervising the supposedly autonomous cars to make rent.

Holy fuck. Nobody fucking wants this shit.

Edit: The minute AI generated trash music or videos start showing up in my feed I'm buying new drives for my jellyfin server and never looking back.

- Whoops... Sorry if I gave you the impression that I gave a fuck what you want. Enjoy your garbage "music".
  Please direct your future responses to ChatGPT.

This isn’t creepy at all. Nope. Not one bit.

I thought I saw an article that said that they were cracking down on this. Now they are doing it?

The large companies don't want anyone else using it unless it's them.
You make an AI deepfake of [Insert Celebrity Name] and they'll make sure you know they're crying like the babies they are by trying to sebding (a) cease and desist letter(s).
If they do it, they'll just laugh at the profits they're making off it.
They want to make sure you're using their tech for it

Butlerian jihad noises intensifies

In realistic terms, I don't think the Butlerian Jihad would have that much of a chance. I'd bet on Skynet and it's Judgment Day happening first.
That is, when AI truly exists. Right now, we have essentially gargantuan amounts of glorified if-else spaghetti.
- If-Else spaghetti with Markov-chains!

As uncertain as I am about the technology, people already steal voices from voice actors, singers, and celebrities. At this point I’m just glad these artists gave their permission.

ew

I wouldn't mind if the AI integration could help augment out Waze's celebrity voices. They don't speak the street names and this could be one spot where it can fill in the gaps around their real voice.

I think we should make Kevin Hart sit in a recording booth until he’s said every street name in America. I prefer artisanal celebrity voices to the processed ones.