* alimiracle <[email protected]> [2025-01-22 16:58]: > Dear Fellow Humans (and AI lurking in the shadows), > I've been pondering this brave new world of AI voice cloning, and I must > say, the idea that our voices could somehow become “free and open source” is > truly... groundbreaking. Because, you know, when I think of my voice, I > definitely think of it as software, just waiting for someone to fork it on > GitHub.
That is great new technology. Nothing wrong with it. > What’s next? Licensing our laughter under the GNU General Public License? A > Creative Commons Attribution for our morning groans? “Feel free to remix, > reuse, and redistribute my sneeze—just give proper credit.” Right! ☺️ > Let me make one thing clear: our voices are not lines of > code. They’re not some modular system you can tweak and package for > mass distribution. They carry our identity, our emotion, and yes, > sometimes our frustration when someone decides it’s their business > to turn us into a soundboard. You don't need to defend as there is no case. Or there is? Someone took the voice from you? We have got enough TTS. Malicious people you can't stop with funny statements on a mailing list anyway. It is futile. > AI, you clever little mimic, you’re getting good, I’ll admit. But let’s not > pretend that cloning someone's voice is just a fun programming exercise. > Because the last thing we need is someone walking around with our voice, > making calls or reading poetry, without the soul that makes it ours. That and many other malicious activities can't be prevented. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
