Post

for better or worse, it’s not possible to provide technical barriers against this, without throwing out the concept of general purpose computation you can always just run the model on your own computer

We tested AI voice cloning services to see how easy it was to clone a voice without the owner’s consent. Results: 7 cloning services offer barely any technical barriers. Only one service - Respeecher - attempts to verify consent. From @janus.bsky.social for @proofnews.bsky.social:

AI Tools Make It Easy to Clone Someone’s Voice Without Consentwww.proofnews.org A survey by Proof News shows that many AI voice cloning services don’t require any proof of a human’s consent — just a simple click of an “I agree” button

attempts to prevent this will invariably be captured by incumbents leading to an even worse situation