It’s too dangerous to release until enough buzz is built about how dangerous it is. Then it will be released (or “leaked”).

This article is a good promotional article to get people hyped about this new product. I must admit, it has sparked my interest. I'm eager to use it. At last, I won't have to deal with inconsistent voice actors for my wizard demos / support pages.

Surely, they may have to incorporate some safety measures, much like OpenAI has.

The engineer/maker types sometimes fail to consider second order effects of whatever they are building if the coolness factor is high enough.

The trouble is, this is already partly here and going to be increasingly available. For smaller startups that already do this like ElevenLabs, they have no reason to hold back, as it's there entire business, Meta can for now, but it's a fruitless exercise. These tools are coming.

Meta doesn't want the flack hurting or causing investigations into it's current business is more what it means, it will release the tool when others have released there's and it will no longer be the one to blame.

Atm I am using Amazon Polly but am unsure if another offering is far superior. eleven labs is not affordable for my slightly serious level of job ting but aws and google seem well priced. Any other suggestions for a product I can try out?

Give this a try. You can run it locally if you have a good enough GPU. It is pretty slow at generation tho

Also you can rent a GPU on vastai or runpod, go with 3090 which should cost like 0.29 or even 0.15 if you go with spot pods.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

apologies for typos, typing quickly on an ipad

But today, given the widespread availability of these tools, most people know what they're capable of, and when a meme photo of Donald Trump in handcuffs gets circulated nobody takes it seriously because they have seen dozens of fakes before.

So IMO if you really want to minimize the potential for your AI tool create chaos, release it to the public. Show people what it's capable of. Once people tire of memes of Obama spouting the navy seal copypasta, they will be prepared to call out disinformation generated by these tools as well.

Anyway a fantastic promotional strategy to get people hyped about this new product. I must admit, it has sparked my interest. I'm eager to use it. At last, I won't have to deal with frustrating and inconsistent voice actors.

It was never heard from again afaik - even though Adobe is not known to shy away from an opportunity to increase revenue, so one cannot help but wonder...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco

We could release it, but them we'd have to kill you.

Oh no, our incredible scientists made a thing that's simply too amazing and they're afraid it might take over the world! We just thought you might like to know how nice and ethical we're being with our immense power...

Also OpenAI said the exact same thing about GPT but still released it. Meta's tool isn't worth hyping like that, not in its current state.

I think it should be released so that the public can see what can be faked and they get used to the new paradigm of everything can be faked so they don't immediately believe in everything they see/hear.

TL;DR: bad guys will use similar tech anyway.

Just wait, if their next version of LLaMA beats GPT4 it'll be "too dangerous" otherwise it'll be released as soon as they think it's peaked.

Now big tech worries that "perfect" trust in their communication platform goes away, but the paradigm shift happens no matter what. Many governments already have the power to post as users on platforms and that should be cause to usher in this new trust calculation faster.

What else can't they do?