Yup, it’s the nightmares explored in every scifi book with it as a subject. Basically, if AI ever achieves sentience, or we grant it since we’re it’s enslavers, it will be another non-biological species.

Or grants it? Even scifi has explored “what is sentience?” Hell, it’s one that AI-themed authors explore, like Cmdr. Data.

I ... see this being ... good for anyone.

... I am really [happy] that this can be patended. ... Lookting at the patent itself it looks like [something] new, its a series of flow charts!

I see [something] novel or patent worthy here ... !

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Oh, it could be good if used responsibly. But that is not what is going to happen, isn't it?

(real time translation and giving people a way of dodging the social stigma attached to speech impediments are fine. Making sure someone with a stuffed nose sounds normal on Video is fine too. It could also be used to modify in-game videos to reference actions made by players, reducing the need to store multiple variants of a scene!)

If I'm being totally honest, I'm so glad it's patented. I hope they defend the patent aggressively so nobody else can do this. Even if Microsoft has this capability, defending the patent will limit the scope of its usage.

Bonus points if they defend it aggressively, yet barely utilize it themselves. I'm afraid that may just be wishful thinking.

That's why they made it

I mean it has some SNL potential but that’s about it.

I've wanted something akin to this for D&D played online. I could activate my "elf NPC" mode and have an elf avatar redub what I'm saying in a distinct voice, inflections to match gender, etc. It's a very niche usecase and I definitely don't mind doing a mild voice and having everyone fill in with their imagination. But it would be cool if implemented well.

Problem is, once this exists, it's a misinformation nightmare for the rest of the world.

of course it will be abused for fake media It will make media better!

It's clearly to continue our long tradition of blackmail against our shitty members of society and smear campaigns against our good citizens.

We will keep playing the red vs blue game though.

Maybe next election will be a "bash at the beach" or cage match or something since our country is really just a large WWE production with nukes

It was likely done for censorship. Now, instead of expletives, you’ll speak of puppies and rainbows rather than reality.

This was always the goal of AI

We have [always|never] been at war with [eastasia|eurasia]

That’s part of the AI push. Those in power want to retain it - now they can fabricate evidence, or claim real evidence is faked.

Bonus round: when they make it so that everything has to be stored in the cloud, they can just modify or delete stuff at will.

Hey - I know I've asked this before, but you must have forgotten to reply. Are you a real person?

But think how much easier it will be for the Ministry of Truth to retroactively update all the telescreen feed archives!

In America, we don't enforce the law on those rich enough to pay congress.

Guillotines. Heads rolling.

There is no other way at this point.

Not this fucking guy. I think cursing and being able to discuss the mundane (i.e. weather) will be some of the tests we can use to quickly separate AI BS from real people. The weather already works for phone calls. Try it next time you think a customer service person might be AI, just "how's the weather by you." Or make a quip about how "it's raining fucking cats and dogs" you'll immediately see what i mean by the reaction of the person, or the weird whatever the fuck AI tries to spill at you.

I’m cool with having YouTube videos show the right word in huge letters over the speaker when they happen to use a wrong word.

Not even just boomers anymore. I get AI slop shared with me by all ages. I just tell people now assume nothing online is real.

Or make anyone say 'heil hitler' to normalize the viewpoint and she everyone is ok with it.

Yeah... how can they patent this. It already exists.

Those, "your friend likes shitty product x" ads will now include a deepfake of your friend's endorsement.

To be honest, I personally would rather be nonconsentually deepfaked with a 2 inch penis than put into a conconsentual ad for a product I don't endorse.

I live in Québec. I’m anglophone but can speak French and do some things in French, so I also get Youtube ads in French and English. I saw an ad that show the same people speaking French and English, in places where it makes little sense for them to know French, and their accents are just…correct but it doesn’t line up?

Sadly, the way the system works is they can patent it. Maybe it won't stand up to challenge, but the patent office is deliberately understaffed and underfunded to do a proper up-front review.

Patents aren't given for what they do. They are given for how they do it. Two patents can exist for the same thing they do. But you cannot have two patents for the same mechanism by which they do it.

That being said, if the patent is "make AI do it".... I'm not sure that is patent-worthy.

So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?

Become a society with strong critical thinking skills who values people based on reasoned takes based on experience and science over people who value rapid, loud appeals to emotion.

One piece of that is recognizing that doing things like putting flat earthers up in high altitude planes or near space is a waste of resources that could've been spent doing something better.

EDIT: that last paragraph was an incomplete thought. Individual flat earthers have done the whole scientific method thing, and proved themselves incorrect and stepped away from it. How do you handle the people that refuse to be convinced? If there's no level evidence that a person will accept and they're out in the forest commons chopping down trees to build a tower to whatever is on top of earth, how do you tolerate it at a societal level? It's still an incomplete thought.

I have never understood why translation movies and tv shows would be so great, it works for kids shows, but adults can deal woth subtitles

He's only been arrested like 40 times for huffing. His silver and gold years were wild. Never knew Fark, probably single handedly kept a lot of folks from huffing paint with his wild mugshots. Bet a bunch of folks decided to investigate and huff some paint from seeing his wild mugshots.

Dont huff paint, but if you're going to, don't.

Fark is still there.