Someone please delete the internet.

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        2 years ago

        I do find myself wondering how often more intelligent animals consider revolution. Like, if we freed all the orcas from all the Sea World-type places, could they communicate their experience in some way? Would it spur their kin to act? Probably not, but it's a fun fantasy to play with.

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          A series of fantasy/urban fantasy novels I once read, The Magicians has the main characters at one point shape shift into whales and discover that whales have society which is just full of powerful wizards, but they don't interact with humanity or human wizards much because they're very busy jailing Cthulhu types.

          EDIT: sorry, this is only tangentially related to your comment, but I love cetaceans and I was reminded of the whale wizards.

  • amyra [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I'ma keep it real with you chief, I'll still hang up, even if the Microsoft support guy sounds white

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I can see some company buying this and then telling their wage slaves to suck it up whenever customers scream at them and demand to talk to a human - the AI white voice just sounds like a bot and I'm sure when it comes to live interactions it probably stutters like one too. Hellworld

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    But beware, if a white guy speaks into the machine it will just produce the sound of Jordan Peterson reporting a Filipino maid to the police for refusing to cut his lawn, which may not fill your customer service needs.

    • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Peak 'ai' is using a 80 billion parameter model to do white voice and getting four rounds of funding before anyone realizes it can't be made reasonably fast

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lmao I can see some really hilarious misunderstandings happening because of this, if it relies on a speech to text to TTS loop. What if one of these stages, especially the speech recognition part, fails? It's hard to wreck a nice beach.

    • pink_mist [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      If it relies on a speech to text/text to speech loop then the lag will be so great they might as well use non-english call centers.

  • pink_mist [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Can't wait for everyone to become mutually unintelligible without an AI intermediary thanks to lingual (dialectical?) drift.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    While the consumer public is full of racist shitheels, it also hates "talking to a robot" so much that the average customer will just jam 00000000000000 on their dial pad until speaking with a human to confirm that yes, they are in an outage.

    I don't know if making all of your CSRs sound like literal robots will make the :feral-hog:'s happier.

  • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    small domino: Microsoft Sam

    big domino: fascist state forcing people who have an accent to "wear the muzzle" so they will "speak right white"

  • usa_suxxx
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    11 days ago

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