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Just a few more incidents (real or imagined) and I can see AI bans coming down.
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Let's go full Galactica and ban digital electronics.
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Mua'Dib!
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gattaca?
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That would be so frickin cyberpunk imo
AI but locked up in secret corporate vaults
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Do not invoke the Abominable Intelligence.
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It all started cause artists didn't want people to comision furry porn from Craiyon...
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I need to start hoarding compute...
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Yeah sounds like foid attention seeking and journo taking it cause its about the new current thing. So far the AIs Ive heard couldnt imitate a voice with these variations to such a degree.
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The OG phone call probably sounded like shit but between phone compression, boomerism, and she probably just deluded herself into thinking it actually sounded like her.
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Nah daughter wanted 50k and had a male friend call from a spoof number to fake a kidnapping while daughter cried in the background, when it didn't work she claimed it must've been an AI scam
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Even AI is not immune to biofoid bullshit
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I've been using ElevenAI for a lot of fun Biden related copypastas so velvetKONGjr thinks velvetKONGjr is qualified enough too say this is complete horseshit considering you can't make crying effects using someone's regular voice.
Trans Lives Matter
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try twelveAI
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Just this past weekend I already set up the "not a robot" password with the family.
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Lɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴘɪɢ, ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴘɪɢ, ʟᴇᴛ ᴍᴇ ɪɴ!
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Is it "nigger"?
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Isn’t it always?
Oh wait, you weren’t talking about the crime itself
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Sounds like bullshit
Trans lives matter
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It was all along...
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Why is the headline written like the AI has autonomy and did this on it's own. God I despite midwits
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why can’t she just call her daughter and ask what’s up
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Hear me out: auto silence non contacts
These frickwits deserve it
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Ok but how did they get the girls voice samples to actually clone the voice? Is there really no way this was a group effort or some stupid prank with the daughter involved?
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It's specified in the article. Her daughter had interviews in her school which were published in school website
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Oh darn should've read till the end
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she picks up a call from an unknown number
immediately finds out its fake after the call ends because who the frick has $50k sitting around and would obviously have time to verify
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Thanks for reminding me to remind my folks to not be r-slurred about tech today
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Every dumb fake millionaire in Scottsdale deserves to have this happen to them.
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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This took longer than I thought it would to reach the public mind.
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This was one of the first things I warned my folks about within hours of experiencing the quality of the voice synthesis from a 30 second input clip.
Anyone else?
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you regularly discuss kidnapping related scenarios so that your family is prepared when that happens?
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so what yer saying is when you get kidnapped yer fricked because no one will believe it!
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