Benoit Fauve

Original article: Validsoft What Reid Hoffman’s Dialogue With His Digital Twin Teaches Us About AI’s Potential and Risks Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, recently engaged in a groundbreaking experiment by interviewing an AI-generated version of himself (digital twin). This dialogue not only showcased the impressive capabilities of generative AI but also highlighted the urgent need for advanced detection tools to differentiate between human and machine-generated content. The Encounter: Man Meets Machine In the video, Hoffman interacts with his digital twin, Reid AI, exploring the intricacies of AI-generated content and its broader implications. While the AI demonstrated impressive coherence in responding, it occasionally came across as overly technical or “business school bingo,” sparking both excitement and concern about the future of such technology. Their discussion spanned topics like the AI’s ability to summarize complex concepts—such as Hoffman’s book Blitzscaling—and the potential for AI to serve as a video host. Ethical considerations, job displacement, and the role of various sectors in adapting to AI advancements were also key points of reflection. ...

Original article: LinkedIn The Misconception of Voice Cloning: It’s Not Dolly the Sheep When we hear the word “cloning”, most of us imagine a sci-fi scene with a scientist in a white lab coat, surrounded by test tubes and microscopes, creating an exact replica of a living organism. However, when it comes to voice cloning, the term is rather misleading. Putting one of these so-called cloned voices under our microscopes, we have recently highlighted that the Emma Watson fake voice, despite sounding natural and like the famous actress to the human ear, failed both biometrics and naturalness checks. ...

Original article: LinkedIn Audio deepfakes have become a growing concern as the technology used to create them has rapidly advanced in recent years. Novel approaches, such as the VALL-E Text-To-Speech (TTS) system developed by Microsoft, claim to synthesize voices with only three seconds of audio from the targeted speaker. Microsoft’s VALL-E research paper was published in early January 2023 and was followed in February by a similar piece of work by Google’s SPEAR-TTS. These technologies are part of a wider development called generative AI, whose recent breakthroughs have been making the headlines over the last months and includes image generation (DALL-E, Stable diffusion, Midjourney,…) and text generation (ChatGPT,…). ...

Original article: LinkedIn Deepfake Audio Has A Tell and ValidSoft Can Spot It Have you seen the recent news about voice cloning abuse using software produced by Eleven Labs? Users took the voice-cloning technology to create deepfake audio recordings of the actress Emma Watson reading Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough being racist and posted them on the message board 4Chan in the latest abuse of AI technology. ...