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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by swores on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:17AM (#39864398)
What about for remembering lost loved ones? There are dead people I would love to hear talk again, even if I know it's not their personality talking just their voice (and who knows, maybe with LLM training on a single person it could even be roughly their personality, too).

I can imagine a fairly big market of both people setting it up before they die, with maybe a whole load of written content and a schedule of when to have it read in future, and people who've just lost someone, and want to recreate their voice to help remember it.

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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by grugagag on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:08PM (#39865714)
We already have ways to preserve the voices of people past their lives. Cloning their voices and writing things in their names is not only wrong but deceptive.
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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by tonnydourado on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:33AM (#39864577)
> I can imagine a fairly big market (...)

I can't, and if I could, I think this would be fairly dystopian. Didn't black mirror have an episode about something similar? I vaguely remember an Asimov/Arthur C. Clark short story about the implications of time travel (ish) tech in a similar context. Sounds like a case of "we've build the torment nexus from classic sci-fi novel 'do not build the torment nexus'"

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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by dotancohen on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:05AM (#39864950)
Jack Crusher did something similar for Wesley.
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