Enlarge / Grimes attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021, in New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images reader comments 75 with Share this story On Sunday night, Canadian musician Grimes tweeted that she would split 50 percent royalties on “any… Read More »
Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Slavoj Žižek and Werner Herzog from The Infinite Conversation. Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica reader comments 36 with 32 posters participating Share this story This week, an Italian artist and programmer named Giacomo Miceli debuted The Infinite Conversation website, an AI-powered nonstop chat between artificial versions of German director Werner… Read More »
Enlarge / Which Steve Jobs is the real one? Ars Technica reader comments 45 with 38 posters participating Share this story A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned from both men. It takes place during the “first episode” of… Read More »
Enlarge / As James Earl Jones retires, Darth Vader’s voice will come courtesy of voice-cloning software called Respeecher. Lucasfilm / Benj Edwards reader comments 162 with 70 posters participating Share this story During the creation of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, James Earl Jones signed off on allowing Disney to replicate his vocal performance as… Read More »
Enlarge / A colorful waveform dramatically swirls through latent space, seeking kawaii. reader comments 68 with 50 posters participating, including story author Share this story Thanks to a web demo of a new AI tool called Koe Recast, you can transform up to 20 seconds of your voice into different styles, including an anime character,… Read More »