2023-09-11 19:13:07
Artificial intelligence is improving more and more quickly, so much so that it is now capable of imitating people’s voices very well. All she needs to do this is a sample long enough for her to analyze and “understand” it. As a result, public figures are the perfect subjects for experimentation. No wonder Paul Arcan and the Belgian singer Angèle were “victims”. We tell you.
We haven’t heard the last thing regarding artificial intelligence and voice copies of people.
For example, we have all seen fraudulent ads like those featuring the voices of public figures.
If their voices are sometimes robotic in these, be careful, this is far from being representative of the capabilities of all AI, quite the contrary.
The proof is that the host Paul Arcan and the Belgian singer Angèle were both “victims” of artificial intelligence.
In their two stories, the result of the manipulations is more credible than ever.
The case of Paul Arcan
We all know Paul Arcan, who we hardly imagine singing at karaoke, and yet, a 98.5 listener wanted to prove that it was made very easy to copy someone’s voice.
In fact, he took the voice of Paul who, every morning, does a press review. This is gold for artificial intelligence software since for almost 15 minutes, he speaks alone into the microphone.
The listener in question only had to put the collected voice into his free open source software for it to analyze and “understand” it.
Result: he succeeded, using his software, in ensuring that the voice of Paul Arcan sang a song by Bleu Jeans Bleu, then by Charles Aznavour.
Go listen to the video at the beginning of the column, we included an extract. You’ll see, it’s ultra-realistic: it even has the little flaws of someone who sings, but is not a singer, it almost distorts, with all the real intonations.
The case of the Belgian singer Angèle
Then, 98.5 also reported news from our European friends where this is the case of the singer Angèle who set social networks on fire.
Indeed, a DJ had fun covering a popular song and adding Angèle’s voice and sound to it. It didn’t take long before the hit was relayed on radios and clubs.
Since she had never actually sung this song before, she did the logical thing: she finally did a “cover” of the piece in question.
Once once more, go listen to the video at the beginning of the column if you haven’t already. We play the false cover of artificial intelligence and the real “cover” sung by Angèle. The similarities are simply incredible.
What to expect next?
Obviously, the ease with which we can reproduce someone’s voice opens the door to a host of discussions: image rights, copyright, identity theft, etc.
It’s a technology that is becoming more popular and improving at great speed, as proof: I talked regarding free open source software that anyone can download.
Unsurprisingly, some will use it to do evil. We only have to think of the examples of fraudulent advertisements like the one featuring Nathalie Simard or Anne-Marie Dussault.
If, in their respective cases, the paths were robotic and jerky, with what we have just seen with the story of Paul Arcan and Angèle, we understand that this is not always the case.
If we don’t really know what we can expect next, one thing is certain: we will have to keep our eyes open and sharpen our critical thinking more than ever.
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