OpenAI is a famous artificial intelligence company known for the AI chatbot known as ‘Chatgpt’ which was first released in November 2022, they are now trying to showcase their latest technology which can replicate another person’s voice and this tool is known as Voice Engine. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated it that they would not release it for public use due to security concerns.
Sam Altman On Voice Engine
On Friday, the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched its new Voice Engine Technology by stating that this voice engine can replicate any person’s voice within 15 seconds after listening to its recording. The company has stated that the announcement of Voice Engine came in shortly after they submitted a trademark application for its name by indicating that the company wants to extend its branches from artificial intelligence chatting to making voice-related software technologies.
Despite its groundbreaking announcement the officials of OpenAI decided to limit the use of Voice Engine to some selected individuals since it raised the concerns that there are some risks and dangers involved for its potential misuse.
OpenAI on Potential Miuse of Voice Engine
Regarding the recent dangers and threats with the ability to replicate another individual’s voice, especially during the time of the 2024 US Presidential elections, OpenAI understands the significance and the importance of proper deployment of this technology.
Many incidents were recorded where a large number of AI-generated calls were made which replicated the voice of many famous US political figures. For e.g. a recent case was reported from New Hampshire by the law authorities where thousand of voters got a generated AI voice calls which impersonated US President Joe Biden.
Despite, several new companies started by introducing their voice cloning software, OpenAI differentiates itself from these companies by taking the attention of the audiences’ or customers’ towards the moral ethics or aspects of this voice software.
The early testers or the selected individuals have already agreed to follow strict instructions which include obtaining permission before replicating or impersonating individuals and acknowledging the use of the AI-generated software. OpenAI decided to follow this same strict policy like they did with their latest video-generated software Sora.
OpenAI on their latest video-generated project called Sora
The launch of OpenAI’s voice engine comes shortly after the latest video-generated project Sora is also expected to release in the second half this year. Sora is a generative artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI which primarily focuses on the conversion of text to generating video content.
The software usually accepts some prompts from the users or the audience which will help them to generate or create short generated video clips according to the description of the prompt which can show real life scenarios, nature, imaginary situations and etc.
It is also limited to some specific individuals who praised the model’s ability to create videos with high-level visual details, camera movements, and characters that express a variety of emotions while it was also criticized for its real risk of AI-generated content which could blind our perceptions about everything.
Other Companies on OpenAI’s Voice Engine
A San Francisco company stated that ‘they recongnize that generating speech that resembles people’s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year’. Meanwhile, OpenAI will try to expand its presence in their AI speech and voice assistant market to establish itself and make it worthy to compete with accomplished players like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Google Home.
