Zuckerberg’s new AI is “too dangerous” to go public: it can imitate any voice

mark zuckerberg was proud to present a new trailer for Meta”the most versatile AI for voice generation” that does exist, however, he anticipated that he is concerned about “potential risks of misuse” of the advanced technology.

Is that his new AI named voice box is capable of imitating any voice and editing audio to make it sound absolutely believable and this can be a dangerous tool in the hands of scammers.

Anyway, Meta also listed optimistic cases in its press release, in which it stated that Voicebox could be used to help visually impaired people to listen to the messages of your friends and loved ones, or to allow non-native speakers to reproduce the translations of their own words in their own voice, but in a foreign language.

At the moment its AI model is capable of speaking six languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Polish and Portuguese.

Voicebox a practical AI for audio editors

Meta highlight that Voicebox is a means for audio creators to more easily edit out unwanted background noises or errors from their audio or video tracks. Also allows you to create nice voices for virtual assistants or more realistic for video games.

“There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models”, highlighted from Meta, “but due to the potential risks of misuse, no We are making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at the moment”.

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“While we believe it’s important to be open with the AI ​​community and share our research to advance the state of the art in AI,” the firm added, “it’s also necessary to strike the right balance between openness and accountability.”

This announcement comes just over a month after Zuckerberg was rebuffed by Joe Biden’s White House, which made it clear to reporters that Meta representatives had not been invited to a West Wing summit that was exclusively for business a the “cutting edge of AI innovation”.

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