Meta released MusicGen, an AI text-to-music generator, open source for the public this week, allowing the world at large to make musical mayhem in 12 second installments until their heart's content. Now, Meta has introduced Voicebox, the most powerful AI text-to-speech generation software we’ve seen to date. So powerful, in fact, that you can’t have it – because you can’t be trusted to have it.
Meta did their homework on this one, they know that throwing this software out into the world would cause nothing but mayhem. Not an hour would pass before the internet was flooded with voice clips made by ner-do-wells of the most vitriolic things possible said through the voice of others. No. A tool of this magnitude should be used with incredible responsibility. Locked away tight and used by only the most trusted and reliable of society.
