Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?!

[FarCenter]

Artificially intelligent software can listen to someone's voice only a few times, and then speak just like them, like some kind of creepy cybernetic myna bird... according to a paper published by researchers from Baidu.

This technology, when perfected, will perfect for generating fake audio clips of people saying things they never actually said. In the words of Red Dwarf's Kryten: file that under 'B' for blackmail.

Chinese internet giant Baidu's AI team is well known for its work on developing realistic sounding speech from text scripts. Now, its latest research project, revealed this week, shows how a generative model can learn the characteristics of a person’s voice and recreate that sound to make the person say something else entirely.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/22/ai_human_voice_cloning/

Don't trust audio recordings of speech.

[LAS14]

1. What's the defense against this? I hope experts can detect this so...

... that we can rely on the major news organizations to tell us the truth. Can they? Will they? Maybe analogue photography and recording will make a comeback. (Not sure about the term "analogue" for photography, but you get my point).

[zipplewrath]

2. Chemical

I think the common term is "chemical photography".

[FarCenter]

5. It is straightforward to make a "chemical photograph" from a digital image.

Given a high enough resolution digital image, it would be indistinguishable from any other chemical photograph.

[FarCenter]

6. blockchain timestamps and digital authentication

[dlk]

3. The Magic of Marketing-Create an Entirely New Need and a Product to Fill that Specific Need

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

4. Photoshop for voice exists and it's both fascinating and frightening

[poboy2]

7. Ted Koppel warned about this maybe 20years ago on an episode of Nightline

Actually the whole thing. Manufactured 'news' that is indistinguishable from a real person or place.
Once this is allowed to go live, its over.

[NCTraveler]

8. This might be the shit.

I might finally be able to have a conversation with the best person in the world.