Enlarge / A cropped portion of the unauthorized AI-generated version of Hanks that the actor warned about on his Instagram feed. reader comments 113 with News of AI deepfakes spread quickly when you’re Tom Hanks. On Sunday, the actor posted a warning on Instagram about an unauthorized AI-generated version of himself being used to sell… Read More »
Getty Images / Benj Edwards reader comments 36 with Recently, a number of viral music videos from a YouTube channel called There I Ruined It have included AI-generated voices of famous musical artists singing lyrics from surprising songs. One recent example imagines Elvis singing lyrics to Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back. Another features a faux… Read More »
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 »