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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda says AI recreations of her dad are 'personally disturbing' (ew.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but international copyright laws still mostly work in spite of that, so I imagine that regulations on this type of AI would mostly work as well.

The thing is, people still don't grasp the ease with which this will be possible and to a large degree already. This doesn't need hours of training anymore, you can clone voices with three seconds of audio and faces from a single image. Simple images can be clicked together in seconds with zero effort. Give it a few more years and you video can be created with equal ease.

You can regulate commercial use of somebodies likeness, which it largely already is, but people doing it for fun is unstoppable. This stuff is here today and it will get a whole lot more powerful going forward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just a few years back, Vernor Vinge's scifi novels still seemed reasonably futuristic in dealing with the issue of fakes well by including several bits where the resolution of imagery was a factor in being able to analyze with sufficient certainty that you were talking to the right person, and now that notion already seems dated, and certainly not enough for a setting far into the future.

(at least they don't still seem as dated as Johnny Mnemonic's plot of erasing a chunk of your memories to transport an amount of data that would be easier and less painful to fit in your head by stuffing a microsd card up your nose)