Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos?
earlier_riser@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Don’t have any recommendations you haven’t mentioned. As a blind person I listen to synthesized speech nearly all day long, so I’m pretty good at catching AI voices. I think the ones trained on IRL people have a “choppy” or “quavering” quality. I’m not an audiophile or computational linguist so I’m sure there’s a term for this I’m missing, but the overall audio has a particular tell to it.
It’s getting harder, though. Now I listen for things like odd prosidy, stuff like odd pauses or inflections or inconsistent pronunciations. Just the other day my mom was watching some AI-generated listicle and the voiceover mispronounced the name of a city after correctly pronouncing it every time before.
Dagobah@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Thanks for your suggestions! Now that I think about it I’ve definitely heard a few of these tells before. Im sure your sick of these kind of questions but I’m curious about your experiences as a person with blindness - how has AI affected your daily life? (I know that this is a generally anti AI space/thread, but please feel free to speak openly, I’ll be the first to admit that the technology is a double edged sword!)
earlier_riser@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Disclaimer: I only speak for myself. Blindness does not respect class, creed, or culture, so every blind person will have their own opinions and experiences. In my case AI hasn’t shown much tangible benefit beyond what clever algorithms are already doing, for optical character recognition etc.
Beyond blindness My knee-jerk reaction to AI is strongly negative simply because it’s another locus of concentrated societal power (Who else is there besides Open AI and Anthropic and maybe Groq? IIRC everyone else is just using one of those on the backend. So that’s what, three people, a few dozen if you include the other C-suite folks at each company, pulling a lot of very consequential levers) But that opinion is probably par for the course for your average Lemming.
Dagobah@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Interesting reply, thank you for your own unique perspective. Would you ever consider using something like real time image to speech to describe the world around you?
earlier_riser@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Only if it were 100% local.