Category Archives: generative

02Apr / 2024

OpenAI previews voice synthesis

OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just a 15-second audio sample:

We first developed Voice Engine in late 2022, and have used it to power the preset voices available in the text-to-speech API as well as ChatGPT Voice and Read Aloud. At the same time, we are taking a cautious and informed approach to a broader release due to the potential for synthetic voice misuse. We hope to start a dialogue on the responsible deployment of synthetic voices, and how society can adapt to these new capabilities. Based on these conversations and the results of these small scale tests, we will make a more informed decision about whether and how to deploy this technology at scale.

They provide worthwhile use cases, such as language translation and providing a voice to those who are non-verbal, but oh boy, the authenticity of online things is going to get tricky very soon.

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Posted by in Ethics, generative, OpenAI, statistics, voice

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13Dec / 2023

Generative plants

Generate your own plant with Max Richter’s interactive. Adjust leaf shape, density, and curvature. The plane updates in real-time in the browser.

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Posted by in Data Art, generative, Max Richter, plants

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13Jul / 2023

Outsourced work and generative AI

For Rest of World, Andrew Deck turned the AI focus on outsourced workers, whose jobs have been directly affected as of late and will probably shift much more. Deck profiled and commissioned four workers to make things without AI and with:

For more than seven years, Santiago Bautista González worked full time selling his cartoon-style illustrations, using the freelance gig marketplace Fiverr. His income, around $1,500 in a good month, dropped by a third this past January. February was equally disappointing.

In search of an explanation, Bautista, 31, read about the growing popularity of visual generative AI software. He found that Fiverr had added a section for AI artists. “And I say, ‘Well, maybe it’s because of this,'” he told Rest of World.

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Posted by in AI, generative, illustration, Rest of World, statistics, work

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