The fact that they chose a classless and trollish way to demo their product makes me want nothing to do with them. Yes of course using AI to get info and insights faster and seamlessly is an excellent goal but their desperate attempt to seem edgy and clever only obscures the actual utility of the thing.
Maybe I'm too charitable but I didn't read "kid fails to tell an implausible lie and woman is flabbergasted" as a straight forward endorsement of the scenario portrayed. The fact that it's played for laughs, seemingly ignorant of the average normie response, does highlight how big a gap there is between the way people who work w/ AI products and the public are thinking about this stuff.
Yeah, good catch. I'm pretty sure I meant Eleven Labs there. Eleven launched in January 2023 and the piece with that quote was from February, so in the midst of that whole hype cycle. I'll update.
The fact that they chose a classless and trollish way to demo their product makes me want nothing to do with them. Yes of course using AI to get info and insights faster and seamlessly is an excellent goal but their desperate attempt to seem edgy and clever only obscures the actual utility of the thing.
Maybe I'm too charitable but I didn't read "kid fails to tell an implausible lie and woman is flabbergasted" as a straight forward endorsement of the scenario portrayed. The fact that it's played for laughs, seemingly ignorant of the average normie response, does highlight how big a gap there is between the way people who work w/ AI products and the public are thinking about this stuff.
"high-quality, open-source text-to-speech models like Whisper"
Whisper is a speech-to-text model (speech recognition model), not a text-to-speech model.
Yeah, good catch. I'm pretty sure I meant Eleven Labs there. Eleven launched in January 2023 and the piece with that quote was from February, so in the midst of that whole hype cycle. I'll update.
I was clueless when I watched the ad. What advantage was he gaining? I couldnt really underatand it. How can the ai give you rizz?
He constructed a false identity and was given reminders of talking points related to it and to her public-facing data.