Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by anigbrowl on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:19PM (#35329435)

Hey HN, we are Mahmoud and Hammad

Are you though? You might just be computer-generated.

While I'm very impressed with this technically (and as a pro-audio person I feel validated to see my predictions of a few years back coming true so dramatically), I don't see anything about risk management in here. Your tech absolutely will get used by scammers, given the overabundance of voice data on the open internet. How are you going to hedge against that?

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by mahmoudfelfel on Monday March 27, 2023 @03:46PM (#35331395)

We have many mitigations in place to increase the safety of this service, I mentioned some of that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35331310

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by anigbrowl on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:39PM (#35332180)

That's interesting. But I think it's a mistake to focus on relying on price to prevent abuse at scale. The use case for abuse of this technology is in highly targeted frauds, not broad-spectrum scams like insurance robocalls. Additionally, this will be zero deterrent to deep-pocketed actors like political action committees that generate fakery to influence elections and the like.

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by mmkos on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:59AM (#35338712)

Wow, I haven't even thought of that. Imagine this being used together with a chatgpt equivalent. Scam rates are going to go through the roof.

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