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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by mikrotikker on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:06PM (#35332625)
Great ensure only the 3 letter agencies have access to the tech and can sink or float a political candidate algorithmically.

Democracy is dead.

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by twojacobtwo on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:30PM (#35332939)
Wouldn't fewer people having access make your proposed scenario less likely, regardless?

If other people continue to have access as well as the '3 letter agencies', the same power will still exists for the agencies, except that there will also be an essentially unlimited number of other people who could be used as scapegoats.

If only '3 letter agencies' have access, they would obviously be the first ones to come under scrutiny if a case of misuse were discovered.

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by mikrotikker on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:35PM (#35332998)
Yes but people will continue generating meme recordings like the ones going around showing the recent POTUSs gaming dialogue. Thus showing everyone not to trust anything.

Without that, we'll just never know, and Joe Blow who never saw a deepfake of Joe Biden praising the stickiness of the latest OG Kush will trust anything.

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