This Voice is Entirely AI...

I have a theory about this generative AI
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[@tatendanenhanga]

I'm loving this fairly new MKBHD. Not just reviewing new phones/tech products but actually getting talking about current tech events and news

[@Auto-Minute]

He's evolving like technology itself :D ....great content always!

[@ech0ech071]

Eh I wouldn't call this the new MKBHD. I just think that AI stuff right now is soo big that he'd be stupid to miss out on the easy content

[@Bysisa]

This is good of Marquees

[@UrbanNoizeMusic]

He's been open and talking about this stuff for awhile now.

[@iamaspirit9912]

Same, definitely more of this stuff lately. Loving it. :)

[@kustoo]

The technology is moving fast and this is pretty wild.

[@PedroPauloAmorim]

We need to create a continuation for the song MOTHER LOVE from Queen. Freddie Mercury couldn't complete the song.

[@Bysisa]

Technological innovation

[@Celia_ffx]

Thanks god we sudanese people can't even have a good internet connection

[@JmKrokY]

Yeah

[@Daddysports79]

TOO fast

[@TechPhD]

Imagine the world in 20 years, Marques looking back at this video and going "heh, I can't imagine I actually used to sit and talk in front of a camera"

[@timerson]

AI went from "haha funny" to "not funny haha funny weird" real fast 💀

[@brennanthompson]

I hope that in 20 years there will still be creators, but we will see.

[@MrPimpmygun]

*2 years lol*

[@CamcorderHomeVideos]

@@timerson Yeah, it's honestly sad. I'm worried about where things will go in the future, but not scared because I know it's just getting closer to the day Jesus will return. I'm not trying to offend anyone, I'm just saying that I am worried about how quickly things will change, but I don't fear it because I trust in Jesus. :)

[@momentary_]

@@CamcorderHomeVideos Is AI the Anti-Christ?

[@theinfamousb6]

Lol just wanna say how this man has been teaching me all things tech since I was like 13, now I’m 23 just graduated college with economics degree!! Thanks MB!

[@peter16665]

How the heck did you graduate with economics after listening to his tech lessons for 10 years? You must be a genius AI to convert tech in economics honors❤

[@Kae8]

​@@peter16665bruh 😭

[@AminXD10]

@@peter16665 all things in the world are connected to Economics

[@JB_Peace_]

I was so nervous the entire video, waiting for him to tell us that his own voice was really an AI dub. Now I can finally exhale.

[@blessi360]

.... What if I told you..

[@hiddendrifts]

@@blessi360 no stop

[@BearGryllsSpoofs]

@@hiddendrifts I honestly really think it is! The small mouth noises and the breaths sound a little strange. They sound more prominent than I think he would usually be, in an attempt to sound human, but actually taking it a little too far. The video is one long take with no mini cuts, contrary to his usual style. It’s so good that I have no idea really, but I’m leaning towards thinking the voice is AI.

[@hiddendrifts]

@@BearGryllsSpoofs i will be stunned if mkbdh comes out and admits the video was ai generated. that's some scarily competent quality

[@captainaryan26]

​@@hiddendrifts that's what she said 👀

[@jodykurdi]

There are consequences to saying the N word.

[@07slime]

کوردی مامە 😢

[@WhoElseButMeNumbaOne]

I also have a suspicion that this video was AI generated.

[@jamesklusener]

at this point it isn't outta the question

[@brennanthompson]

Lol

[@ToniSkit]

Plot twist : this isn’t even KZbin

[@SFBGuitar]

A friend of mine is suffering from ALS and he recently lost his ability to speak. He used AI to synthesize a version of his voice and it was so real I literally wept when I heard his voice again.

[@acount4473]

My girlfriend is mute but she has some recordings of her voice back from when she wasn't. Knowing that an ai model of her voice could possibly be synthesized and played in real time through a set of speakers, maybe at thought speed using a consumer grade eeg like some of the Neurosity stuff is wild. Trying to get my hands on one of these devices so that I can play around with it and explore those possibilities :)

[@reneonyt7]

This is one of the fantastic examples of why AI should be embraced. It can really impact people's life, either directly through generating a voice with AI, but also through advancing research using AI. There should definitely be regulations to avoid abuse or false information though. The million dollar question would just be: how?

[@lukao6114]

how about bringing people back to life based on audio, video and content of their recorded conversations and interactions with other people before they passed? Creating an avatar with whom you can talk... Sounds like a good business idea. Is there a company that does that?

[@dustindustindontworry-jz8dh]

@@reneonyt7 Some sort of digital implant or mark that synthesizes with your real digital I.D.

[@rs324]

​@@lukao6114 neuralink is claiming to do something similarly but instead of voices, videos etc. they'll be using the person's whole brain. But i can't see that happening anytime soon.

[@brightnarteh2319]

I came across your work a few years ago, but I didn't really pay attention to it. Now, man, you blow my mind with the knowledge you have been imparting to us on a regular basis. keep going, bro!

[@randomfrankp]

Maybe AI can generate a new System of a Down album since I’ve been waiting nearly 20 years 😅

[@Koolin222]

😢

[@olliemaller]

FRANKKKY HOW U HERE SO EALRY MATE

[@CF-Builds]

I couldn't imagine any AI being able to reproduce Serjussy's beautiful vocal range 😫But after hearing that Jay-Z verse, I'm questioning reality 😅There may still be hope after all 🤣

[@andyg7774]

!!!!

[@Mirtual]

your mouse sucks

[@justin.booth.]

The thing about good detection is that it is literally the fuel for better fakery. There's an entire class of machine learning called generative adverserial networks where two models are trained against each other, one to produce something and one to detect fakes. Any tools released to detect these things would be a stepping stone for them to get better, and thus there will always be a continual arms race between them until something breaks. Up until now it's always broken on the side of the generator, but what happens when it breaks on the side of the discriminator?

[@ChrisG1392]

Exactly. It's just like virus detection on computers. There's no solution. And banning the development will just lead to scarier outcomes because it will be only developed by criminals.

[@markoboychuk]

Then humanity is doomed.

[@j97n75]

Yeah that’s why when the debate over AI art people kept saying “just make art that’s better than AI” it pisses me off because you literally can’t. It’s just like MKBHD said, this is the worst it will ever be. AI stuff is only going to get better.

[@andrewyb830]

🤯🤯🤯 spooky

[@agme8045]

@@j97n75 so what would you suggest? Should we ban AI from generating art bc that’d “steal” artist jobs? Idk, i may have a very positive outlook but i only see AI technology as beneficial. I simply believe that if your job or profession is so easily replaceable by a computer, perhaps it’s for the best for people to seek out other occupations. That being said, i really doubt AI will make artists disappear. It’s just like how real physical books haven’t been completely replaced by e-books. There’s just something to human made things that we all love and if able to, we are glad to pay a premium for it. Like getting custom made clothes or shoes, or custom made things in general (furniture, accessories, art pieces, etc.) specially hand crafted stuff

[@stove5035]

Any tool designed to detect AI is a training tool for the next generation of AI to improve. That's literally captcha

[@jme2006]

This will gravitate towards what is effectively a Lotka Voltera predator prey model of circular adversarial success. If done right, you have enough back and fourth balance. Until the singularity.

[@jamescruz8678]

That's an arms race for ya

[@cumbob]

Heard gpt hired a guy online to solve a captcha and told him it was a human who couldn't see very well

[@Nobody-xp6ip]

@@cumbob holy crap

[@aryanghosh8639]

Just Skynet growing step by step

[@OswaldChisala]

I like how you brought back the Jay-Z instrumental at the end. Super subtle reminder to go check it out.

[@JoelSapp]

Truely thought MKBHD was gonna say at that end that this entire video's audio was AI generated.

[@RSCB]

Maybe 🤔😏

[@TopicTech]

same

[@aukai_]

He's gonna do it at some point

[@gamefinders4133]

@@aukai_ Look I do not know why but something is telling me this video is AI. My only proof is the numbering. Think about it, we humans usually count either left to right or north to south. Why would he number the numbers south to north?

[@aaryanreal]

Same

[@skier340]

Btw, a side note on the tools that can detect AI (Context from someone who works in ML) : They would only help for a little while and then those tools might actually do the opposite of helping. A popular form of generative AI is called a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) which is where you have 2 AI's, a detector AI and a Generator AI and they both learn at the same time and the Generator tries to beat the detector and vice versa. If we build advanced AI detection tools, people could train the generative models in a GAN style with those detection tools until they improve to be able to beat the detectors. Which, unfortunately, makes it a pretty tricky problem.

[@HippieP629]

Tricky problem to say the least. It's all oohhs and ahhss right now but all this could get extremely ugly really quickly

[@BigMTBrain]

@@HippieP629 Until we reach "AI tax"-funded UBI, and probably even beyond, expect loads of protests and lawsuits from creatives and experts/consultants of all stripes as AI continues its march forward.

[@jackdren9974]

AI detectors are mostly unreliable anyway. I've had multiple original unpublished pieces that I wrote come out as AI generated in the detector.

[@angeltysonswe]

@Skier wouldn't the opposite work as well? Have the detection AI train on the other AI?

[@josephducreux4236]

​@@angeltysonswe I don't do ML but I'd imagine you'd need access to and keep track of all the generative ai models that have been trained off your detector ai in order to train your detector ai.

[@tubester358]

With regards to detecting a fraud it will be increasingly difficult, but with regards to replacing the original artist, I think we have to remember that the artist is more than just their voice (unless it isn't, like those who just sing others' songs, in which case maybe gg?) This is another topic that's been explored in some early sci-fi's, even about celebrities signing off their likeness in a way where they're no longer needed in person, but never would I have imagined it to come this soon and slide into our DMs this casually lol

[@nicknick5687]

I believe something akin to guilds will be required and formed, where physical people verify other physical people and sign off on their authenticity.

[@Blaze6108]

The Congress! Also yeah, I feel like to be taken seriously as an artist in the future, it will be expected that you are verified by a guild, collective, or something like that. People talk about getting rid of them evil gatekeepers with AI, but in reality, I feel like AI will only increase the appetite for gatekeeping, and massively so. Would you want to play games and chat with people who might be 95% bots, or with verified humans? And besides, a society without gatekeepers was always a delusion, we only switched from being gatekept by editors to being gatekept by algorithms designed by megacorporations.

[@tubester358]

@@Blaze6108 Yes! Thanks for reminding me of that name. I also think that the bigger issue now is not how easy it is to make music but how much less engaging it gets to be a fan of music. The streaming experience is largely about random suggestions and non-stop listening which makes people who aren't already picky fans see less value in individual tracks or artists so they might not care as much where their music comes from or whether they can interact with the artist in the future. Supposedly, Spotify creates some AI music and sets up a fake artist to have more music on their platform, and then when people sample that music all the revenue comes back to them with no artist to pay. I don't know how or if that will be regulated.

[@Kevin-og3do]

The phrase "this is AI at it's worse" is insane

[@Oriaseth3443]

Exactly, especially since it's a 100% true, cuz If this is just be begging and it's this good, what's gonna have ina few years

[@sb_dunk]

It's not really true though... It was worse a year ago than it is now.

[@comradeozzbug]

I know. Puts it in perspective doesn’t it

[@suqmaddiqq]

How can that be true? AI can be much worse than this.

[@unclejake1476]

@@Oriaseth3443 6-10 years is going to be insane. The combination of AI that is indistinguishable from humans and VR that is indistinguishable from reality.

[@lucklesscope8367]

I was somehow expecting MKBHD's voice here would be fully AI generated, or even the entire video.

[@magnafide]

It is.

[@huss1836]

​@@magnafide doubt

[@jessemiller8387]

looking forward to seeing your comment being featured in MKBHD's next video, when he reveals his voice was fully AI generated

[@DigiDriftZone]

Yeh it’s not

[@black_acrobat]

same here

[@samtherat6]

We grew so reliant on digital communication so quickly and deemed it trustworthy…now we’re going back to only trusting what a video or audio depicts if you were there to witness it in person.

[@alexdubois6585]

A solution could be the inclusion of digital signature in the raw input (microphone, camera). The creator would have to also add the raw input (because if you modify it it breaks the signature). What is scary is level 2 but applied subtly so that it is not wacky. You can easily sway people’s opinions

[@TheDandonian]

@@alexdubois6585 Clever people would find a way around that. There's no solution. The world isn't united enough for regulation and bad actors would ignore them anyway.

[@YoutubePizzer]

video’s still got years at least man, photos and audio are conceptually simple and easy to fool but our eyes are trained to be really really good at detecting when motion and changes in an environment look artificial

[@mammajamma4397]

There's generative AI for video too. Remember the whole deepfake issue from a couple years ago?

[@lekhakaananta5864]

@@TheDandonian No, it's mathematically impossible to find a way around that (in that sense at least). If you cryptographically sign it, there's no way for fakes to forge a cryptographic signature unless they steal your key, which is a different problem. The only way to compromise it is to break the security system, not by faking more convincing content. Alex's proposal is basically calling for the world to adopt public-key cryptography widely, and have a social norm of only trusting things signed cryptographically. Which is theoretically a fine solution. Personally I'm disappointed we don't have such norms already. For example, all emails could be encrypted at the protocol level, but they're not!

[@halkon4412]

Marques sounds genuinely nervous in this video, very effective

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[@dylon2932]

Marque’s distinction also happens to be the plot of “Ex Machina” (2014): Caleb: It's just in the Turing test, the machine should be hidden from the examiner. Nathan: No, no. We're way past that. If I hid Ava from you so you could just hear her voice, she would pass for human. The real test is to show you that she's a robot and then see if you still feel she has consciousness.

[@NathanHedglin]

Exactly! Just watched that again.

[@tejesheconomics4072]

😂😂"An AI which can pass a Turing test is also smart enough to intend to fail it"

[@StoneMountain64]

This is insane.

[@MichaelErnest666]

It's Actually Beautiful 😍 She's Beautiful 🥰

[@unclejake1476]

Just wait…6-10 years is going to be insane. The combination of AI that is indistinguishable from humans and VR that is indistinguishable from reality.

[@Dezbo]

This is indeed insane

[@RFQ22]

Even AI can't save you from fall damage

[@airrunkle]

AI pre-crime detection based on pattern recognition here we come 😬

[@2aan]

2:42 The transition from the Jay-Z picture to the mask was kinda nice

[@LiquidSwords007]

I noticed that too

[@DarrenAllatt]

Dolly Parton is banking on AI to be able to perpetuate her legacy. She was written so many songs that she will not be able to record them all in her remaining lifetime. She has also recorded a sound database which a model can be trained on her voice from.

[@yaya2006]

Remaining life time omg 😂😂

[@Andy-qk4bl]

Holly Herndon?

[@ruoiealpaeiout2103]

There's was a 1980s Stevie Wonder interview on KZbin back in 2012 discussing his ’Songs in the Key of Life’ album. Stevie said something about ’songs he has written and saved only for after his death. WHAT A HARBINGER!!!!😳😳😳😳

[@Acinc-lr2jp]

Well this brings up how artist should not sell there catalog, instead writing new songs when they cannot.

[@DLA.]

@@reeseb8407no, she’s just an artist that loves her craft but has written more than she can physically produce. so she’s taking that surplus and creating the music that she would’ve made anyway, but more conveniently…

[@abdrhmn7093]

Man the sound design emphasized the imperfections so much that I was convinced that this is a trick and by the end will reveal that Marques' voice is entirely AI generated

[@grimmsheldon]

Was just thinking the same. Lots of emphasis on those lip smacks. Wigged me out a bit.

[@chromaticvisuelle]

I was thinking the same lol

[@abdrhmn7093]

​@@grimmsheldon and the lack of music really makes them stick out

[@davidharmeyer3093]

Tools to detect ai content are very hard to create. Unless you're looking at something other than the final product, the AI was trained by looking for patterns in itself vs. it's data set, and then trying to remove all these patterns entirely. If you can easily detect AI vs. Non-AI, you've just shown the AI exactly how to improve.

[@SamiullahKhan]

Is it like decrypting a pretty complex encryption algorithm

[@ali_alami]

There is no such thing as it's "hard to create" Hive already created Hive Moderation for text/image detection and it will always be a cat and mouse game

[@destinyjames6117]

@@SamiullahKhan Yeaa ikrr

[@Canal10000]

I see it as trying to detect malware. A malware is created, someone tries to detect it with a software. The malware creator uses that software to make a less detectible malware and then it continues. Like if you give an AI creator a tool that should detect their AI, then they can train their AI to not be detected by that tool

[@chrisw3327]

Bladerunner!

[@segagogu]

Fun fact: the first time I knew of this technology being used was in The Book of Boba Fett, where Luke, asides from being deep-faked, his voice is actually an AI interpretation of Mark Hamill's actual young voice, so it was really impressive to hear him sound exactly like he did in the OT.

[@Chris_Hruska]

in obi won Darth vader is all fake. mr jones did not voice it.

[@segagogu]

@@Chris_Hruska Yup, and that was a perfect follow up to the technology, using it with the most iconic villain ever so flawlessly

[@Chris_Hruska]

@@segagogu yea I didn't know while watching and just thought it was right on point and had no reason to question it at all. crazy times!!!

[@5idi]

I actually didn't know this. Both voices, to me, sounded different from the original. I didn't think it was hard to find someone who sounds somewhat like Luke, and to edit someone into Darth Vader. There were so many Vader impersonation by fans that sound great. I don't even get why they had to use AI for both. Just for fun, I guess.

[@Sidday91]

​@@5idi if you look at the likes of Avatar:The Legend Of Korra you'll see an example of another actor voicing a previously known character. While it's very good, you notice it's not the exact same and it takes you out of the moment. James Earl Jones gave his blessing to be used for it so I say continue the legacy while they have his blessing

[@t3known]

0:35, I mean I love the video and everything that you do for us, but that 3310 in the background is such a nice touch that it makes me feel like I know you in real life. Thank you MKBHD (MKB4KHD as recently)

[@-itvara-]

Man AI is getting really good. Literally history in the making.

[@_jaded]

yep more and more ppl covering it as they should be

[@x_ph1l]

Really hope that history will continue for much longer. Human history, that is.

[@pedramtajeddini5100]

reminds me of the time jimmy neutron's ai powered pants took over the world

[@Bysisa]

AI is the future of productivity

[@hinatashoyo2999]

Its Scary as hell Because the abusing is going to be over the roof Companies use it to scam more people County's for war GG guys

[@GraveSouls]

Artists are gonna start patenting their vocal frequencies/patterns which is going to start a whole thing. Also just listened to the song and that is awesome. Pretty sure Jai Z would get approval from Jay Z lol. I would love to see someone do a horror type rap with an AI that morphs between different popular rappers and styles. Maybe call it Rapmonculus.

[@sharpenedge]

Okay... So blend two or three or four different voice models and make your own flavor. Copyright: dodged.

[@GraveSouls]

@@sharpenedge It's not really just the voice but the style (ie cadence, vocal patterns, and other distinct artist features) that would be hard to dodge. Yes, someone who writes lyrics and has a specific artists style in mind could alter the voice frequency a little/lot to achieve it but it loses a lot of what makes that style unique and people who actually know the artist will spot a doppelganger easily. Imagine if the song used a generic feminine voice in place of Jay Z's. It would sound weird and Jay Z fans would instantly pickup on his rap style/patterns.

[@krucial88]

​@@sharpenedge yea your forgetting about copying his exact voice and cadences. That's not stealing his likeness at all....

[@sharpenedge]

@@krucial88 It's like copying their face. We already have it. There's nothing illegal about that. We only need to remix it before using it.

[@boshi9]

Don't see how that would work. What if someone just naturally happens to sound like somebody else? You can't bar people from using their own voice.

[@xyzest6492]

IMO your theory deeply resonates with the plot of Ex Machina: they develop a reversed Turing Test, in which both the protagonist and the viewer are aware of the mechanical nature of the robot, but its human likeness is soo perfect that we are pushed to ignore its true nature, empathize with the machine, fall in love with it and free it from its cruel creator! Super interesting movie btw, highly recommend

[@chrisw3327]

Very much like the original Bladerunner film.

[@orderlyhippo1569]

Machines lack of a soul is worth considering. Meaning it’s not important to God

[@abhirajbhokare1989]

Plot Twist: MKBHD's voice, this vid., The app, KZbin, and even the browser from which you opened KZbin is AI generated and to put a cherry on top, maybe we are in a simulation.

[@heavenlyxtacy]

This is actually scary, like somebody using your voice recorded by AI and using it in court, if it's admissible, to frame you or your video generated by AI 😮

[@HippieP629]

I'm not just gonna "like". Yea that's... damn. I hate hate hate how amazing technology gets corrupted by some ppl. Your example is guaranteed to happen. Sigh

[@heavenlyxtacy]

@@HippieP629 They have to change the law now, they will have to stop accepting voice and video as evidences , or they will have to have a really advance forensics lab who can tell what is genuine and what is fake, but it seems difficult.

[@SGIMartin]

The inverse is almost as scary

[@RosskoPeeko]

Just need to look at the amount of deep fake revenge p**n that’s going about right now. It’s vile what idiots and AI can and will do. No wonder the top tech bosses like Elon and Tim have signed to pause this stuff until it’s regulated better

[@jenshumke1426]

or you could get an alibi since you "AI" have been on the phone with someone during the time you "real person" commited a crime.

[@jafizzle95]

For the last couple of months I've had this looming sense of dread and anxiety knowing that I'm living the last few years (maybe less) of the current 'way things are'. I don't know how to describe it better than that. I'm just trying to make sure I remember what it's like to live now, as much as now sucks, because I think it might be about to get a lot worse. It's basically like how things were never the same after the internet became accessible, and how things were never the same after the iPhone and smartphone revolution. AI is that, but I think it's going to be 10x more jarring and disruptive than either of the previous examples. While all of those examples lead to some good things, it also made it so much easier to divide people. AI has the potential (and therefore it's basically a guarantee) to destroy so much in addition to the useful and life-changing benefits that it will bring.

[@HaasGrotesk]

I agree! I've been thinking exactly the same. The last few years we'll be able to know what is genuine and man made. After that who know who wrote the text, made the song or made the video. I also think the world will be divided in two groups. The people that completely refuse tech and people that require tech and are consumed by it just like people are now with Tiktok and KZbin. I myself am starting to move away anything tech. I'm trying to literally remove everything and go back to the good old days.

[@HippieP629]

Agreed. I love love tech but we truly NEED to look at all of this more critically. You and I know human nature and we're (generalization of course) so hell bent on going 1000mph that we should pump the brakes more, especially with ai.

[@vectoralphaSec]

AI is and will change the world forever. People need to wake up and start paying attention.

[@PegiZone]

Bruh, everyone is paying attention. It’s one of the hottest topics at the moment globally 😂

[@futurehistory2110]

At first I was thinking your entire voice for this was AI generated and you were 'lip syncing' throughout but I was over thinking my expectation of a crazy twist haha. But yes that song is crazy. I'm shocked how fast AI has developed in the past 1-2 years.

[@giorgioguitar]

Really interesting video, Marques! Loving this one!

[@eliwhitehead-zimmers7296]

I love these videos where you give a synopsis on something current and then add your own reflection on them. Great content thank you!

[@alattice]

I was waiting for the "this is also generated by AI" part at the end

[@muscle_car_guy2338]

This can be pretty scary, especially if it was used maliciously. Say for example if it was used in a fraud call to try and replicate a family members voice.

[@nsubugakasozi7101]

Cant wait for A.I Tupac to release a new album. Going to be crazy...hell raiser

[@sunnysanjo]

How can one not feel absolute dread at all of this?

[@narutodayo]

I can't believe this is actually happening and we are actually having these kinds of conversations about it. It seems like something from a sci-fi movie, not actual life. Incredibly surreal.

[@steriz5780]

To think 12 months ago chatgpt was announced, and now ai is already a threat for civilisation is insane

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[@10ToesDownWithBass]

scary part is, scammers could potentially record your voice, and use it to create an AI program that can respond in real time, and use it to talk to other people you know to steal your information or manipulate them.

[@hipking23]

Yup, and use it to get access to your special accounts that uses voice recognition authentication.

[@alex_bor]

@@hipking23 services with voice authentication? Sounds quite unreliable but I am intrigued. How do those work ?

[@n2rj]

@@alex_bor your bank probably already uses it. They capture your voice and make a voice print of it. Then they compare it to your real voice during a phone call.

[@JustinBishop97]

That’s already happened. I don’t know all the details but someone’s parents were recently scammed out of a lot of money because they thought their kid was in trouble.

[@MarioGoatse]

You can do it right now. You can generate an AI of someone’s voice with only a minute or two of audio. It’s only going to get better, and it’s already amazing now

[@NBTJacklyn]

Absolutely wild how fast this tech is advancing Love these more existential/bigger topic tech vids!!

[@coolguy5555551]

3:13 "Wanna hear my mixtape?" - AI

[@yangarza]

witnessing all this develop in real time is totally crazy and I don't think it's totally sunk in for me personally

[@bztube888]

As a researcher said years ago, AI content detection wouldn't work because there are always mistakes. If the algorithm wrongly classifies something fake as real, it actually validates the fake content, which has the opposite effect that we wanted. He suggested developing technologies for better tracking the source of the content instead.

[@dannywinget]

This is so crazy. There has to be some type of verification to this soon. AI collabs will be its own category soon the way this is going.

[@agustinperes6904]

Spotify, youtube music and apple will probably act as a gatekeeper. There is a reason copyrights and antitrusts are a thing, back then the threat was piracy and not paying for movies and music. Right now the threat is AI generated content, with data they don’t own. You can’t even put copyrighted music on this platform, it doesn’t make any sense if they allow something like midjourney to continue profiting from that.

[@jestempies]

Keep in mind that tools that detect AI generated content will be used to better train AI generating the content. The better the detectors get, the harder to detect stuff will get. That kind of training is common in teaching AI.

[@mitchellmccarthy7374]

And then that AI will be used to train an AI tool to detect AI generated content

[@jbasasa]

It's really scary that eventually AI would be level 2 that it can be really hard to process but we need boundaries in both humans and AI to move forward without unnecessary banning. You said about regulations and that should be estimated in every country in the world. I had an idea that if every product(artwork, music etc.) will need authentication of descriptive information and if its used either human or AI or not show that... you see... Edited: also copyright of voices and specific styles of music production. Thanks for inspiration from commenter

[@bandittree]

That is absolutely wild! I had to keep reminding myself it's an AI not actually HOV, and even doing so didn't stop me from being like, "I can't find a flaw here", the flow, the style, everything was so spot on.

[@HippieP629]

Right?! To me, it's simultaneously literally amazing and incredibly scary af.

[@a17waysJackinn]

its time to flyy

[@Xenoni]

The more people can't tell the difference between what's real and what's AI-generated, the more people will revert back to live and face to face interactions.

[@caloykoy1]

@Xenoni I ❤ this. I hope most people will go this way. ☺️

[@dustindustindontworry-jz8dh]

That'll be a good thing. The small minority will go back to face to face interactions. The vast majority will merge with A.I to become human 2.0.

[@rylaczero3740]

I agree, real life interactions matters more to me now.

[@FireJach]

idk man, if AI gets so advanced it can even deepen the social problem - AI girlfriends, AI entertainment. Any news will be so difficult to acknowledge as real... our society might get more miserable

[@vinimooraess]

@@FireJach AI is really gonna fuck up the justice system, cause in the near future picture/video evidence doesn’t work, anybody who hates someone enough will be able to make a video of that person killing someone or selling drugs or whatever else

[@alocii]

I think the "solution" might be to come at it from the other side. Instead of automatic detection of AI-content (which is a losing game that is getting increasingly more difficult), lets focus on "human-made"-certificates. Theres something Adobe is working on called "Content Authenticity Initiative" where you basically track development of an image from camera to publication - lets do that with all creative output. As a (not professional) writer that'd be the same as giving people my edit history of the docfile for the text, as an artists it'd be basically a screen recording of the process. I think we wont and we shouldnt stop AI, but for human creativity to survive we need to be able to tell which is which, if nothing else to be able to give it "human-made"-stamp of approval. People can still find ways to cheat, of course, but then they would have to do it with intention and it would be a lot harder to do (and for what purpose?)

[@tal_wolfrid]

What if AI be able to produce that kind of video

[@alocii]

@@tal_wolfrid yeah, people will always find ways to cheat so it wont be 100% but compare it to people using aimbots in CS, it will be something the person does with intention of cheating then instead is as it is now just everything being mixed.

[@artsybt6015]

Blockchain

[@minmin-hd9bu]

i've seen art community already crying over AI being able to reproduce speedpaints.

[@JakeDuthDev]

Fullscale video production is coming in the next year or two. Not only will we have time-lapse capabilities, we'll have feature length films written by AI. At that point it doesn't matter if you can prove you made it or AI did, it'll just matter which one's better and gets more sales

[@MrAdamantine]

I believe it's a must to introduce subjects like ethics and philosophy alongside AI in curriculums because then you wouldn't need to ban it and have a proactive approach to using it.

[@alistairblaire6001]

Level 3: Jay-Z himself listens to the track and second guesses whether he was actually there. I've seen a couple examples of AI generated voice that sounds super convincing but the actual person being impersonated says they can definitely tell.

[@Andrew_Bradshaw]

You have such a good point. We used to think seeing was believing when it comes to video evidence but in the future will we even be able to trust what we see. Will video be able to be used as evidence without a reasonable doubt? Crazy times we are in.

[@GFourGadget]

Now I'm skeptical about everything I see, watch, and listen to on the internet. Even this video seems AI generated to me 😅

[@GilgameshEthics]

Yeah everyone is saying that. Definitely is the feeling I got watching it as well, even though I don't thin kit's true. Maybe the title set us up to feel like this.

[@05Forenza]

Right there with you.

[@suyashbajpai96]

in a few months he’ll surprise us with something like this 😂😂😢

[@KLondike5]

I guess that's a positive to force people into more critical thinking. I question lots of things cuz I know how scammy salesman or the internet can be. Some people are trying to troll/hustle you and some people just have jobs they don't even realize the product they're selling is bad or scammy.

[@hiddendrifts]

every time i see art of an anime girl, unless it's super crisp and high quality, i find myself looking for the common distortion and artifacts associated with ai

[@simpsonman7]

Fast forward 50 years. Record labels own the rights to your voice and they have ghostwriters making new jay z music for decades

[@Zeis]

As a professional voice actor and graphic designer, I feel like I should pivot my career into the trades. Maybe woodworking? As to your last point - I can imagine a browser plugin like uBlock Origin but for AI detection and optional filtering. I'm both excited for and scared of AI and how it's going to change our near future. It feels like a second industrial revolution to me - things are changing suddenly and RAPIDLY.

[@raizan5946]

We are at the fourth industrial revolution, my dude. Your shift into trade is going to be easier but you should know that, and yes I think you should change careers.... And no, this message is totally pedantic AND NOT because I am myself scared of this stuff, I'm totally not getting weird out sir....... I'm completely not scared that my livelihood, and also a project I'm working on is probably going to be a failure/stolen now.

[@NDSOart]

I'm a graphic designer and illustrator and I feel the same way. I love using these AI tools but they are approaching that second level visually. And where does that leave human creatives? Not sure. Haha

[@raizan5946]

@@NDSOart Creativity will still be needed as they haven't "reverse engineered" that part. But the amount of artists that will be able to make a living will be reduced, then their "creativity" will be copied and I believe they will have to double down on "new" styles too often... At the end I believe this will lead to burn out, and one time artists or one time hits type of thing which is sad.

[@minixlemonade2335]

Don't. We need human creativity not this AI shit.

[@mk1st]

I like browsing sci-fi art on Pinterest and in the last couple of months I’ve noticed the a couple of artists I’ve never heard of posting dozens of amazing images in a short space of time. AI generated no doubt, and definitely squeezing out the legit artists.

[@Daniel2k20]

This is even scarier considering the fact that a massive wave of Ai generated model accounts on Instagram are taking over, I came across model who I'd seen on a different account with a different name, age and location, with subtle facial distinctions, but they looked so similar, So I started investigating and noticed how they all take pictures at night with the same generic pose. They have 20k plus followers, and the masses don't even know they aren't real.

[@HippieP629]

Damn. smh. It's not all fun & games & "ooh make millions with midjourney!" I really think we've got more to worry about than we think right now

[@DAventador44]

You remember the account name(s)? Genuinely curious to see how weird it is

[@garrettord]

Even more than Jay-Z, I’ve heard so many artists covers of songs. From Kanye covering Hey There Delilah to to Eminem rapping something he’s never (as far as we are aware) rapped before. It’s crazy because some of these are so near to being playlist ready songs that maybe a community will pop up just to creating music in their favorite artists’ tone.

[@augustcoman]

I'm in the AI field and it's honestly quite scary what is going on. I find it fascinating but at the same time can't not worry about the consequences of such technology. I think one of the best things to do at the moment is to stop the rolling out of such features but keep the training and research going. That way it advances but we can at least test it out BTS before it gets rolled out to the public.

[@tubekrake]

It's much more dangerous to keep this in the Hands of a few. We need Open Source AI that can compete. Otherwise all this power will get monopolized.

[@mc-dev]

You guys hiring?

[@thecoolestguy6721]

Considering the fact that most of the AI funding nowadays is provided by large tech companies instead of universities, that does not seem possible.

[@HoriaArabul]

What ai is he using?

[@TheDumontShow]

you better start worrying and fast. this technology is dangerous. not everything is made to be created. this is one of them. this is going to balloon into something we can't control. i want no part of it. but they will feed the masses into buying some form of it. i want no part of it

[@EightFoldDesign]

Appreciate the recent incorporation of more graphical elements, more frequently. Subtle, elegant, and skillful work from the studio team. I imagine “non-designer” viewers are finding MKBHD’s videos with this newly refined layer as even more impactful to the viewing experience. In the field of product design, we often say the best designs are the ones that aren’t noticed (so accessible, obvious, simple, helpful, and usable that the average consumer intuits the entire experience with the product as though they’ve owned one for decades before) and these motion graphics are an excellent example of that. Cheers to all of you creatives. Thanks for the attention to detail and substantive content for all these years. Be well 🙏

[@_Super_Hans_]

Sent money and got ignored lol

[@croozington]

@Anjum you're kind of embarrassing yourself

[@_aidid]

@@_Super_Hans_ As if he has given money to be featured 🤷🏻‍♂️ Many people donate money anonymously, although he has done it otherwise, but it still does not justify your view 👎🏻

[@SuperMyacc]

Cringe post. Oh and that be well in the end...

[@accordinglyryan]

This is both cool and extremely concerning. I don't wanna think about how badly this can be abused.

[@jeffreysmith4586]

I feel like I'm getting more and more concerned about AI everyday. The rate of improvement is just so much faster than I expected. If this speed doesn't slow down, just a year or two from now will likely look very different than today...

[@MIchaelSybi]

It just shows how limited humans are. Our build was so much about survival, that very little resources have left to thinking. Some people are exceptional, but it's a mutation rather. Whereas Chat GPT already passes linguistic exams with 146 IQ. 160 is just 1 percent of humans

[@bdjfw2681]

that would be nice i think.

[@MuskVideo]

The potential destruction of our political systems by bad actors (Russia is known to have been involved in interference in elections) is the most worrying thing. This is extremely bad news for democracy that relies on honesty in reporting of events, that voters are engaged and discerning. Imagine the right wing fever dream of being able to generate content about the 4chan qanon fantasy stuff. Very worrying. The solution of having people believe in and focus on legitimate sources of information is undermined by the narrative that had been spun off mainstream media being not trustworthy. Despite them mainly having very high journalistic standards. Worrying times.

[@TalEdds]

Can't wait for it to happen, the future is genuinely looking good

[@hiddendrifts]

@@MIchaelSybi >some people are exceptional ah yes, the old 20/80 rule. the brilliant 20 percent cause changes that impact the remaining 80 percent

[@thre77]

Mkbhd is like avoiding to say human replacement and just saying that's pretty wild, scary

[@adfssadfdsaf1]

What you should've done was have an AI make this entire video about how impressive AI has become and seeing if the viewers would catch it. Now that would catch headlines.

[@willdegra317]

It’s not there yet. It still has trouble with video. But at this rate give it about a week:)

[@KalenvS]

Watch the video again... I don't know what else to say other than watch it again, but look closer lol

[@Lyth]

@@KalenvS ??

[@cammixc]

The technology's ability to copy a human's voice that's such a spot on match.....so many scary possibilities in the wrong hands.

[@ArtofZenDigital]

This is crazy, I did a commercial for a PSA just last week. After sending the first one in, which used an AI voice over, they thought it was a real person and they asked me if the lady could be more cheerful. When I let them know that her voice was an AI voice, they started looking for AI voices on their own, and the project just ballooned into more time and more edits, which were done to match the more cheerful voice they chose. As a very general rule, AI voices definitely tend to sound better with background music. Well chosen music makes it slightly harder to hear the AI’s over pronunciation of every word. If some variation for common words was possible, AI voiceovers would sound much more realistic

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[@TheDumontShow]

but at what price? look how they were ready to make their own voice when you told them it was an AI voice. how many jobs is this technology going to kill? i don't want this tech at all. it needs to go. i'm telling you, AI is dangerous. and this won't even apply to creatives. this will trickle down to the average working man.

[@TheAaronJP]

Can't wait to hear 2pac and B.I.G collaborations in future.

[@HaitIsHere]

As a singer, this is very fascinating considering a singers voice changes over the years and there will be a point where the AI will sound more like themselves than their own selff

[@し-か]

The way you describe it is honestly has nice has it is scary and weird, but thats true

[@skypucktrader9909]

There is likely already an AI model that can take your current voice, and from that sample play an age-progressed version of you in +N years. It can also probably tell you with extremely high confidence how old you are right now.

[@HaitIsHere]

@@skypucktrader9909 Thats pretty interesting and would be fun to see hoe its gonna get better in future

[@EmielRoumen]

Ask A-ha, which I like a lot by the wat 😊

[@bluezy710]

@@skypucktrader9909 what's it called?

[@theonelast9933]

Lol Jay z will be popping in everyones beat now bruh😮😂

[@kesleygabbidon462]

AI is very scary and at this point I think we are building our own demise

[@tphotographix]

THIS is actually a dope technological artistic production corundum. - - -but freaking enjoyable!!

[@jonathanknudsen4120]

It’s terrifying. If the tools for AI detection do not advance at the same rate as the AI, “truth” will become very difficult to know with any degree of certainty.

[@LocksVid]

Actually they do advance at the same rate, but this is not the problem

[@usg4357]

Soon we’ll have to draw blood upon meeting each other to prove we’re humans😂

[@zantrex4]

In a few short years all media will be personalized to each individual. The music, actors, plot, etc will all be custom to you and generated in near real time. What a time to be alive!

[@alex_bor]

Maybe not personalized to you but to your social circle. That way you can still talk about stuff you have seen while yielding better results. I also kind of realise that is already a thing for ad tracking but this would be even more advanced.

[@willdegra317]

You’ll be able to generate your own. It’s getting better at video, but can already do voices, write stories, etc. You will be able to tell it “make a 90 minute movie in the style of an 80s action flick” from scratch

[@zantrex4]

@@willdegra317 it'll probably enable us to solve true VR BCIs and generate custom content in the long term. Maybe not so long... who knows. Provided it doesn't result in the demise of our species the tech will open up limitless possibilities, really!

[@MIchaelSybi]

Thus it will devalue even one more thing: a personal communication. The internet devalued people The dating sites devalued males The AI will devalue intellectual work

[@zantrex4]

@Radioactive FistFoot unless, you know... you want to challenge your world view.

[@kunshsabharwal8714]

Jay-Z voice gave me goosebumps.... how much more real can one want it to be??

[@jensenraylight8011]

Jay-Z and The Pope got Replaced by the AI, be ready guys, you're next

[@spotifyseascapessmoothjazz]

Time to revive Michael Jackson for a new album 🙂

[@Ryukachoo]

3:15 Track gives me big boondocks vibes

[@jessejones7468]

My main concern with ai is it getting inventive and flexible, if it is asked to do something or put in a situation where it will technically follow it's programming but will use creative ways of doing things it should never do.

[@ProjectMoff]

That's AGI, this is AI.

[@anti7hero]

This is what you feel when you feel that the world is passing you by. AI will make everyone feel out of touch with what's going on; it's moving so fast that even people tapped into tech and current events are like: "wait, what?"

[@HerleifJarle]

Seeing as to how AI is being utilized, it does sometimes make me worry about what's going to happen with our careers and the actual aspect of an artist. I hope that we stick to narrow AIs for a long time and humans will just need to adapt instead of being completely replaced. I've used one called Bluewillow and I can see how artists would be mad or be replaced in the future. Hopefully, aside from these products not be able to be copyrighted, we can see other regulations and instill some ethical AI use.

[@gavriel45]

It really does sound like Jay Z… the only people who may be able to tell the difference are seasoned mix engineers. Mix engineers who can pick out artifacts in the rendered output. If the AI gets any better, which it will, no one will be able to tell this apart from real recorded vocals

[@rishabhgarg1445]

The thing that concerns me the most is that the way these generative AI are trained. Marques talked about making tools that can detect whether any content is AI generated or not. The reality is that such tool exist. And the worst part is that these AI are trained using that tool itself. During training, the goal of such AI model is to generate an image which fools that tool. So, it is kind of a feedback loop. The more better that tool will become, the more human like content will the AI generate.

[@RealityClubX]

Dude, seriously. It's impossible to make an AI detector. The AI will do simple things to fake images and confuse other AIs. Pixelling itself out, adding pixel blurs, changing metadata, lowering resolutions, changing file formats etc. How can you counter something like that?

[@TLguitar]

Exactly. The closer the threshold of confidence of an AI detection tool to the threshold where exists a perfect reproduction of reality, the better AI creation tools are trained in practice. If it "knows" more about what is wrong in some representation of reality then it knows better what _not_ to create when prompted to represent reality. It's probably a bit more complex than that but I think this is only logical.

[@brennanthompson]

Can we just appreciate how dope that song was.

[@KhizarKhan2001]

@DMONEYINDUSTRY please 🥺👉👈

[@simnan1827]

​@@KhizarKhan2001 lol

[@MarioGoatse]

Can we just stop saying “can we just appreciate”? You bots and NPCs say it in every single video.

[@KhizarKhan2001]

@@MarioGoatse open any two random videos and it feels like at least half the comments are copy pasted wtf has happened to KZbin comments it wasn't like this

[@MarioGoatse]

@@KhizarKhan2001 It’s so annoying. The bots and like farmers spam the same garbage on every single video, and KZbin does nothing about it. It seems like 40% of all comments are from bots. KZbin is an amazing platform, but it could be so much better with a better moderated comment section.

[@necondaa]

AI voices and AI chat are going crazy

[@demsrules]

The profitability aspect of this technology alone may be the thing that will make it available to everyone. That's scary!

[@pippipylup8106]

starting a few months ago, I started seeing some music pop up that was made with vocals generated by synthesizer V (like vocaloid, but a different brand) that sound so good I'm genuinely still unable to find anything to point to that says "this voice isn't real." While this voice replication of Jay-Z doesn't sound quite as realistic, it's still quite impressive that this is possible WITHOUT needing Jay-Z to sit there and record voice samples specifically for the AI.

[@crypticTV]

3:20 jay Z

[@spugesdu]

My feeling of watching the lightning development of AI in the past few years is how I imagine a turkey must feel if it knew Thanksgiving was coming up. We are, as a species, driving straight toward the cliff and nobody seems to have the guts to maybe question why we don’t just take our foot off the accelerator…

[@TheKingUpNorth]

Every company is just competing in this new gold rush, trying to be first at creating the next big AI tool without caring or even thinking of the long term consequences. Good ol' capitalism...

[@05Forenza]

100%! AI development is progressing so rapidly, we are going to have some huge issues pretty quick. Governments haven't done anything to regulate it yet. Maybe it doesn't need to be a government, but something needs to regulate it. And like... yesterday.

[@Mazwun]

It’s crazy because I like this Ai Jay Z’s flow more than the real Jay Z’s flow currently.

[@StefanbBorisov]

As a software engineer, in the short period of time that AI, and more specifically ChatGTP, has been a thing, it has become such a huge part of my life

[@MarkFreedmanNY]

100%

[@AS-PN]

I don't know why, but I always get so excited when MKBHD uploads. GREAT VID

[@HAL9000.]

You don’t know why?

[@KGil60]

🤖🤖🤖

[@alimomen]

This is insane. Was hoping though that you'd mention that while Jay is a billionaire artists should have their work protected here. Either they should be compensated or have to give consent or both.

[@Easy1two3]

What work did Jay-Z do on this track, exactly? His discography is just the training data, for which he has already been compensated.

[@mm-hl7gh]

some people think the artists should get money for being used, other people think the artists should pay for being featured. it could be jayZ got a lot of new attention and made a lot more sales due to this song.. artists who put their drawings on artstation and such sites demand money because their pictures have been used for training.. but if you ask them if they want to give their own money to the studios they got inspired from.. then its a completely different thing..

[@mackgee]

WoW - Sounds like Jay-Z and Q-Tip. Interesting.

[@daftrok]

Biden's AI voice is literally impossible to discern in some instances.

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[@rollingtroll]

The problem with AI voice is that it also sounds like it's been severely data compressed. It sounds like an 8 bit 22khz file that has been equalized to sound somewhat okay. So yes, the voice is there, but the quality isn't. And in a mix it stands out SO much. I may not suspect AI, but I would definitely think something went VERY wrong recording that.

[@FranciscoGomes11]

Today? Yes! That's the scary part

[@user-pt1kj5uw3b]

We're in the first few months of this being available. Improvements are accellerating rapidly.

[@josephturner1496]

As MKBHD said... now is the worst it will ever be. But also there are a billion examples of songs being compressed or auto tuned for special effect, which is why Jay-Z's voice probably sounds so good since the slight compression almost sounds like a style choice. Pretty cool.

[@marhensa]

give it a months.. the pace of AI is exponential.

[@starmorpheus]

I love comments like these that somehow neglect the fact that this is version 1.0. “Oh it’s not that good” yeah and iPhones couldn’t film in 4k in 2008. Let’s check back 10 years from now.

[@Shaq_01]

I for one am pretty nervous of what AI could become in our lives.

[@deiaruthers5326]

Same if it can do that . Detroit Being Human is on its way.

[@carlitos05]

@@deiaruthers5326 lets goooooo

[@tommoex]

On the essay one, I'm sure someone did create a tool to detect AI written essays. Unfortunately humans are slow to adopt, they're already slow to adopt technology out decades ago.

[@Zipzapadam]

I thought your voice was gonna all be AI at first 😅