🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' timewww.mylondon.newsexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1587arrow-down11cross-posted to: upliftingnews@lemmit.onlinetechnik@feddit.org
arrow-up1586arrow-down1external-linkAI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' timewww.mylondon.news🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square48fedilinkcross-posted to: upliftingnews@lemmit.onlinetechnik@feddit.org
minus-squareKillerTofu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoBeen around a while. https://www.lennytroll.com/
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoLenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.
minus-squareKillerTofu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoThe tool has existed. Frosting it as “ai” doesn’t make it really different.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoAI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective. Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉
Been around a while. https://www.lennytroll.com/
Lenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.
The tool has existed. Frosting it as “ai” doesn’t make it really different.
AI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.
It’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective.
Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉