We're going to be okay.

There are far more good and interesting use cases for this technology. Games will let users clone their voices and create virtual avatars and heroes. People will have access to creative tools that let them make movies and shows with their likeness. People that couldn't sing will make music.

Nothing was more scary than the invention of the nuclear weapon. And we're all still here.

Life will go on. And there will be incredible benefits that come out of this.

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javier123454321 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not denigrating the tech, all I'm saying is that we've crossed to new territory and there will be consequences that we don't understand from this. The same way that social media has been particularly detrimental to young people (especially women) in a way we were not ready for. This __smells__ like it could be worse, alongside with (or regardless of) the benefits of both.

I simply think people don't really know that the new world requires a new set of rules of engagement for anything that exists behind a screen (for now).

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supern0va 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We'll be okay eventually, when society adapts to this and becomes fully aware of the capabilities and the use cases for abuse. But, that may take some time. The parent is right to be concerned about the interim, at the very least.

That said, I am likewise looking forward to the cool things to come out of this.

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DANmode 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> People that couldn't sing will make music.

I was with you, until

But, yeah. Life will go on.

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There are plenty of electronic artists who can't sing. Right now they have to hire someone else to do the singing for them, but I'd wager a lot of them would like to own their music end-to-end. I would.

I'm a filmmaker. I've done it photons-on-glass production for fifteen years. Meisner trained, have performed every role from cast to crew. I'm elated that these tools are going to enable me to do more with a smaller budget. To have more autonomy and creative control.

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javier123454321 an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, the flipside of this is that we're eroding the last bit of ability for people to make a living through their art. We are capturing the market for people to live off of making illustrations, to making background music, jingles, promotional videos, photographs, graphic design, and funnelling those earnings to NVIDIA. The question I keep asking is whether we care to value as a society for people to make a living through their art. I think there is a reason to care.

It's not so much of an issue with art for art's sake aided by AI. It's an issue with artistic work becoming unviable work.

	▲	volkercraig 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This feels like one of those tropes that keeps showing up whenever new tech comes out. At the advent of recorded music, im sure buskers and performers were complaing that live music is dead forever. Stage actors were probably complaining that film killed plays. Heck, I bet someome even complained that video itself killed the radio star. Yet here we are, hundreds of years later, live music is still desirable, plays still happen, and faceless voices are still around, theyre just called v-tubers and podcasters.