When it comes to voicing his concerns over AI, English actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry isn't mincing words.
, recounting how astonished he was to discover that an automated system had been used to duplicate his voice for a documentary's narration without his express knowledge or consent.
"I said not one word of that — it was a machine," Fry told the crowd as he played a clip of the audio deepfake, according toFry explained an AI was likely taught on the seven official UK-edition Harry Potter audiobooks, all of which he narrated. And although this is a relatively tame use of AI, the actor was careful to warn that the technology could theoretically be used to generate much worse types of content.
"It could therefore have me read anything from a call to storm parliament to hard porn, all without my knowledge and without my permission," the actor continued. "And this, what you just heard, was done without my knowledge."already been used to generate much worse material.
"Tech is not a noun, it is a verb, it is always moving," Fry continued. "What we have now is not what will be."
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