{"id":166118,"date":"2023-06-20T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meta-announces-new-ai-model-that-can-replicate-the-voices-of-loved-ones-but-says-its-too-risky-to-release"},"modified":"2023-06-20T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:30:17","slug":"meta-announces-new-ai-model-that-can-replicate-the-voices-of-loved-ones-but-says-its-too-risky-to-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meta-announces-new-ai-model-that-can-replicate-the-voices-of-loved-ones-but-says-its-too-risky-to-release","title":{"rendered":"Meta announces new AI model that can replicate the voices of loved ones, but says it\u2019s too risky to release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-announces-new-ai-model-that-can-replicate-the-voices-of-loved-ones-but-says-its-too-risky-to-release.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the potential risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time,\u201d the company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">research post<\/a>. \u201cWhile we believe it is important to be open with the AI community and to share our research to advance the state of the art in AI, it\u2019s also necessary to strike the right balance between openness with responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to Insider\u2019s request for comment, made outside normal working hours.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said in the news release that the model could allow visually impaired people to hear messages from friends in their voices or allow users to speak in foreign languages in their own voice. The company also said the tech opened up the possibility for creators to edit audio tracks for video or create more natural-sounding voices for virtual assistants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the potential risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time,\u201d the company said in a research post. \u201cWhile we believe it is important to be open with the AI community and to share [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}