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How do you implement voice cloning prevention? Human voices aren't that unique. Also, AI voice cloning isn't perfect. So... At what threshold is a voice considered, "cloned" from a legal perspective?

I mean, people couldn't tell the difference between Scarlet Johansson and OpenAI's "Sky" voice which was not cloned.

Article from someone who doesn't know the difference between communism and socialism (which actually doesn't have a universally accepted definition).

I'd love to hear this guy's take on how to deal with Baumol's Cost Disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Capitalism has no solution for it, but socialism does. It's almost as if capitalism is good for some things and socialism is good for other things! Then there's democratic socialism which chooses to use both economic systems, choosing the most appropriate one for any given thing.

Thinking about it: There should be a contest to see who can fit the most functionality into the tube.

Future winner: "It wasn't easy to cram a fully functional oscilloscope inside... I had to shave off bits off the tooth brush handle, but ultimately it turned out great!"

Big AI is a bubble but AI in general is not.

If anything, the DRAM shortages will apply pressure on researchers to come up with more efficient AI models rather than more efficient (normal) software overall.

I suspect that as more software gets AI-assisted development we'll actually see less efficient software but eventually, more efficient as adoption of AI coding assist becomes more mature (and probably more formalized/automated).

I say this because of experience: If you ask an LLM to write something for you it often does a terrible job with efficiency. However, if you ask it to analyze an existing code base to make it more efficient, it often does a great job. The dichotomy is due to the nature of AI prompting: It works best if you only give it one thing to do at a time.

In theory, if AI code assist becomes more mature and formalized, the "optimize this" step will likely be built-in, rather than something the developer has to ask for after the fact.

How could pleasing older women ever bring dishonor‽

Mohammed himself did as much with Khadija!

Be the change the world needs by replacing oil with pleasure as Saudi Arabia's strongest export!

Who says you get reincarnated right away? It could be a 1000 years between your death and rebirth!

That's how I set it up in my silly comedy Isekai, Maizy's Tails (it's free to read on the web if you care... Just search it, it'll be the first link): After death souls need to be "aged" at least 1000 years before they can be put in a new body. The gods think it's a multiversal rule but the MC figures out a workaround 😁

It actually opens with the gods bidding on souls from Earth... A world that ended about a million years prior to the auction (because that's how long it took to sort and categorize them all) 🤣

Someone is wrong on the Internet.

They'll claim that because someone is LGBTQ+, their birth certificate is fraudulent and that counts as enough evidence for denaturalization.

Mrs Brisbee is pleased.

Says chain male bear.

They can't even AI right!

That should've been a pelican on that bicycle.

Due to cost cutting, norovirus decided to only do the bare minimum.

Quiet quitter!