Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI

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The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.

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How is this different from a human doing an impersonation?

Because it can be done fast, reliably and at scale.

This, and it's not a human. All these analogies trying to liken a learning algorithm to a learning human are not correct. An LLM is not a human.

Our entire society would collapse if we couldn't do things fast, reliably, and at scale.

Yes, but if “things” is replaced by scamming artists, that’s a shitty society

Artists aren't being scammed. They're being replaced by automated systems. It's the same thing that happened to weavers and glassblowers. The issue isn't that their job is being automated. It's that people replaced by automation aren't compensated. Blame the game, not the players.

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I don't think it's a particularly odious mental challenge to understand that we're not upset about the general concept of doing things at scale, and that it depends on what the thing in question is.

For instance, you'd probably not be terribly upset about me randomly approaching you on the street once - mildly annoyed at most. You'd probably be much more upset if I followed you around 24/7 every time you entered a public space and kept badgering you.

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You know what the difference is, trying to act otherwise is just being obtuse.

There was a difference between complete duplication and impersonation for the purposes of satire.

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