Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.
Translation… “This ‘AI’ is hot garbage that would make us look bad if we released it in its current state, but we want to hang out with the cool AI kids… So instead, we’ll say that it’s SO advanced and so good that it’s DANGEROUS for the public. That way we look cool, ethical, and mysterious and definitely NOT that we blew our wad on the metaverse last year and are reaching for anything to climb out of the hole we dug…”
Mark won’t hesitate to publish an unethical/dangerous model to the world, he’ll actually thrive on it.