OpenAI’s Voice Clone Engine: A Technological Triumph or a Moral Tragedy?

OpenAI is unilaterally deciding if anybody can impersonate your voice. What can go wrong?

Patricia Gestoso
AI Advances
Published in
8 min readApr 1, 2024

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A tic-tac-toe board with human faces as digital blocks, symbolizing how AI works on pre-existing, biased online data for information processing and decision-making
Amritha R Warrier & AI4Media / Better Images of AI / tic tac toe / CC-BY 4.0.

On 29th March, OpenAI released a blog post sharing “lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.”

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