People have used an online voice generator to create fake clips of Emma Watson reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Joe Biden announcing that US troops will go into Ukraine to fight Russia's invasion, and Star Wars actors saying deeply offensive, misogynistic and racist messages.
Emma Watson is among those whose voice has been used to generate fake clips. Pic: Jacques Witt/SIPA/Shutterstock
This can then be applied to the firm's text-to-speech speech synthesis feature, which by default offers a list of characters with various accents that can read up to 2,500 characters of text at once.It didn't take long for the internet at large to start experimenting with the technology, including on the infamous anonymous image board site 4chan, where generated clips included Harry Potter actress Emma Watson reading a passage from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Film director James Cameron, Top Gun star Tom Cruise, and podcaster Joe Rogan have been targeted, and there are also clips of fictional characters, often reading deeply offensive, racist, or misogynistic messages.In a statement on Twitter, ElevenLabs - which was founded last year by ex-Google engineer Piotr Dabkowski and former Palantir strategist Mati Staniszewski - asked for feedback on how to prevent misuse of its technology.
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