Yeah, I don't get why it is suddenly getting so much attention today, it is all over twitter too

xnx 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Simonw (who has a bit of a Midas touch for posts here) just posted about it https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/vibevoice/

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realty_geek 2 days ago | parent [-]

To be fair, his Midas touch is a result of consistency and a lot of hard work.

It's like the gardener at one of the Oxford colleges said - it's really easy to create these perfect lawns, just turn up every day and trim and water it - for a couple hundred years.

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soperj 2 days ago | parent [-]

I thought they rolled it as well?

	▲	ffsm8 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		As always with people: listen to what they say, not to what they do... After all, they rarely do what they say themselves, so it's surely not entirely made up nonsense!

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GuinansEyebrows 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

there is so much more subversive marketing out there than any of us can really fathom. i try not to be too paranoid but it's getting a lot harder every day.

i know someone who worked in what we might call the 'astroturfing' space within the entertainment industry. after having a few discussions with him and with things like this[0] becoming more known, it's really difficult to afford any assumption of organic intent when money is on the line - especially at the scale that microsoft works at compared to something as comparatively quaint as the music industry.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/geese-chaotic-good-marketing-ind...

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ramon156 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

well duh, they updated the news section

https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice/commit/e73d1e17c3754f...

which is microsoft for "we removed two dead links". AI innovation knows no limits!

	▲	Vinnl 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Interestingly that seems to be in response to [1], which might indeed be the trigger for this. [1] https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vibing-capturing-screensh...