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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   2930 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 24, 2023

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I've been introduced recently to AI-generated line synthesizers via Youtube. Basically, you can get an AI to create a soundclip that sounds like a person of your choice. This is obviously something people have discussed in the context of faking evidence, but did you know people are using them to have the last four presidents play Call of Duty Zombies?

Found on 4chan: AM (from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) reads the schizophrenic rants of Francis E. Dec. Delightfully dramatic. (Warning: contains n-words.)

I found the fakes of Gandalf reviewing the Rings of Power pretty funny.

My personal favorite is rogan and shapiro on the beach that makes you old. The jokes are masterfully timed for ai generated memes, imho

I thought everyone had seen these things already:

(Elder Scrolls III Morowind) Dagoth Ur discovers the Nerevar is an Argonian: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kNipoNLC6Eg

There's also it reading the first/best AI-made greentext: https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1677084954915746.webm

And finally we have Donald Trump explaining the many wondrous amusements on Epstein island: (NSFW) https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1675198451189817.webm

I was mildly tempted to post the Abby Shapiro deradicalisation meme to discuss whether it's philo or antisemitic, but refrained in the end.

What I find fascinating is that people are now using the same app to have the bible narrated with Joshua Graham's voice.

Yes, the Burned Man from the Honest Hearts DLC of Fallout: New Vegas.

Joshua Graham inspects 10 Colt M1911's in 80 seconds, or one handgun every 8 seconds. The clip is 3:28:28 long, so while reading the Genesis he has inspected 1563.5 handguns.

The Genesis has 1533 verses, the entire Bible has 31103. By the time Joshua is done with the Bible, he will have inspected about 31722 handguns, which is honestly not that much compared to several million M1911's in existence, but enough to outfit a post-post-apocalyptic army.

Have you heard the cut Obi-wan lines from a new hope?

That... was certainly a thing I just listened to. Is that computer generated, or does someone just do a really good Alec Guinness impression?

Fake.

There's this new AI app that immitates voices based on just a few samples.

Supposedly finetuned for US accents so doesn't work that well for other ones.

I saw a league of legends version with some damn good one-liners. Can’t find it though.

There was also a guy going around and putting all sorts of copypasta into the voice of Ranni the Witch. Crazy how fast he could turn one around.

Trump and Obama are pretty good, Biden varies, I wouldn’t have recognized this was supposed to be W without being told so.

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