[grc] AI Hiding In Plain Sight

Thu Dec 22 12:17:05 PST 2022

While the temptations of automation are real, and I know how grueling audio
editing can be, the introduction of AI into editing software has all kinds
of potential negatives. The way that AI works is that the systems have to
be "trained" on voices and much of the way this has been done is
by snatching smart speaker commands without the permission and consent of
the users (or the kind of permission layered in dense privacy policies that
no one reads or understands). The things also regularly record people in
their homes when people don't intend to be recorded.
These both constitute significant privacy abuses. Additionally, the
technology in a broader sense is being developed in pursuit of voice and
emotion recognition, a set of technologies that have chilling implications
in the hands of law enforcement and are already in use in
some prison facilities.

To bring it back to radio use, there would seem to be a few issues. One is
accents, and both errors caused by accents the AI is not familiar with, and
the connotations of "smoothing" language out in a way developed by largely
white and asian male programmers which may
change the way people express themselves. This also applies to the disabled
and the neurodivergent. Human judgment is probably better suited to make
close calls between authenticity and comprehensibility than an AI.

What I think one can be sure of is that the technology will come out first
and the problems will be revealed later. So buyer beware and always
consider the possible downsides of new gee whiz technologies.

Best,

Tracy Rosenberg
Media Alliance

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:49 PM Tom Voorhees <juice at whidbey.com> wrote:

> Tracy, If you could outline the possible AI user risks to the below? Ann,
> Frieda or myself could post your response to the GRC list. Thanks, Tom.
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> Subject: [grc] Fwd: AI Hiding In Plain Sight
> Date: 2022-12-21 09:10
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> "Adobe released Project Podcast, a free AI-powered audio processing tool
> that can enhance voice recordings, making them sound like recordings made
> in a professional audio studio. "
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> This is absolutely the year of AI, and the announcements are just going to
> keep on coming.
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> Think About This
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> Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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> There are a bunch of AI announcements in the news today. OpenAI is
> releasing Point-E, which is like DALL-E but for 3D modeling. Its resolution
> isn't great, but it's up to two magnitudes faster than competing systems.
> Adobe released Project Podcast, a free AI-powered audio processing tool
> that can enhance voice recordings, making them sound like recordings made
> in a professional audio studio. Google announced a research project for an
> app that can read a prescription written in "doctor's handwriting" and
> figure out what the doctor was trying to prescribe. (Details for each
> below.)
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> This is absolutely the year of AI, and the announcements are just going to
> keep on coming. One of the biggest opportunities for value creation in the
> next few years will be companies that leverage the base layers provided by
> large language models and finely tune highly-specialized middle layers
> above them. Think of it as training (educating) workers, then renting them
> out to other companies. The startup thesis for 2023? Find an existing
> problem or inefficiency you can solve by fine tuning a large language
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> OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup behind
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> its newest picture-making machine POINT-E, which can produce 3D point
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> Recently, Adobe released a free AI-powered audio processing tool that can
> enhance some poor-quality voice recordings by removing background noise and
> making the voice sound stronger. When it works, the result sounds like a
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