Meta says its new speech-generating AI model is too dangerous for public release.
Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet:
There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the potential risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time.
The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.
This is what I like to call “building hype,” or at least an attempt at it.
Building stock hype. “Invest in us now, you’ll get gains whrn we release this!” /s
“You can be unethical and still be legal; that’s the way I live my life.” - Mark Zuckerberg, March 5, 2004.
So knowing that, what is the danger? I‘d think of what it does to making news even more untrustworthy or be used for scamming people, but that can‘t be it, because that is simply unethical and he doesn‘t care about that.
How would the release of it hurt their bottom line? Maybe I am already putting too much thought into this and it‘s just stupid hype building.
Why do companies who develope AI models always say such bullshit. In the end it gets released anyway
they say that because they’re not ready yet. Once it’s ready, you bet they’ll try and release and monetize it somehow.
It’s like a car company saying their hot rod is way too fast for the public. Now lots and lots of people want it, especially those willing to pay through the nose.
But does it have legs?
I have one too, but it’s too dangerous
Mine goes to another school
it lives in canada. you wouldn’t know it.
