I hope it’s granted. That would at least bring one kind of limitation for this into the world.
“If we didn’t create the evil misinformation bot, someone else would have. You should be happy it was a massive corporation that controls this patent, not some soulest unethical entity whose motives are profit over everything. That was a close one. Phew.”
Why the fuck would people make this? There is NO WAY this won’t be abused.
I mean it has some SNL potential but that’s about it.
It’s clearly to continue our long tradition of blackmail against our shitty members of society and smear campaigns against our good citizens.
We will keep playing the red vs blue game though.
Maybe next election will be a “bash at the beach” or cage match or something since our country is really just a large WWE production with nukes
That’s why they made it
of course it will be abused for fake mediaIt will make media better!
I hate the patent system so much. There’s already software that does this, all they did was add the word “live” in front. So now they own every live broadcast translation even though the techs been out to do it for a solid 2 years.
Patents aren’t given for what they do. They are given for how they do it. Two patents can exist for the same thing they do. But you cannot have two patents for the same mechanism by which they do it.
That being said, if the patent is “make AI do it”… I’m not sure that is patent-worthy.
What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.
There is years of prior art, they can’t patent this.
It’s evil, but they can’t patent it.
Sadly, the way the system works is they can patent it. Maybe it won’t stand up to challenge, but the patent office is deliberately understaffed and underfunded to do a proper up-front review.
If it can be done, they will do it. Power is unconstrained by ethics, empathy, or morality. Never assume that anyone in power shares these traits with the rest of us, they do not.
The only thing that constrains power is enforced laws with teeth.
In America, we don’t enforce the law on those rich enough to pay congress.
wow, way to go Microsoft. I am sure you market it with some bullshit like it helps you prevent live broadcast slips but we all know your wet dream is that fascist goverments line up in your doorstep to buy this tech. It will also remove any sort of accountability from news reporting. Someone can now say “Heil Hitler” on live tv and then say it was an AI fault. Not that they are fazed by such an expression in the US nowadays but you get the idea.
Or make anyone say ‘heil hitler’ to normalize the viewpoint and she everyone is ok with it.
The game show host of the original Running Man would have loved this tech. It’s streets ahead.
The patent also posits that such a tool could be used to remove filler words like “um” or “ah” from live speech, or to erase stutters or speech impediments.
That’s kind of fucked up. Let people speak for themselves; don’t “”“improve”“” their speech without permission
and it also makes it more difficult for people with speech impediments to speak. Imagine seeing absolutely no one have any speech quirks or anything and have some of your own, would you feel secure about opening your mouth? Then there is this handydandy tool, now you are mentally chained to it to even speak.
LLM are just new chain on our necks that make us less free and able.
Surely the researchers noticed the skulls on their caps and asked themselves if they were the baddies?
Even when the goal isn’t misinformation…
Removing filler words, personal and colloquial terms, replacing words for more appropriate ones according to an “internet search”.
Who would be subjected to that willingly? Why even use a real human in the process at this point?
I’m cool with having YouTube videos show the right word in huge letters over the speaker when they happen to use a wrong word.
I don’t see this being any good for anyone.
But I am really pissed off that this can be patented. Even looking at the patent itself doesn’t look like anything new, its a series of flow charts.
I see nothing novel or patent worthy here at all.
If I’m being totally honest, I’m so glad it’s patented. I hope they defend the patent aggressively so nobody else can do this. Even if Microsoft has this capability, defending the patent will limit the scope of its usage.
Bonus points if they defend it aggressively, yet barely utilize it themselves. I’m afraid that may just be wishful thinking.
I … see this being … good for anyone.
… I am really [happy] that this can be patended. … Lookting at the patent itself it looks like [something] new, its a series of flow charts!
I see [something] novel or patent worthy here … !
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Oh, it could be good if used responsibly. But that is not what is going to happen, isn’t it?
(real time translation and giving people a way of dodging the social stigma attached to speech impediments are fine. Making sure someone with a stuffed nose sounds normal on Video is fine too. It could also be used to modify in-game videos to reference actions made by players, reducing the need to store multiple variants of a scene!)
Oh hey, it’s the tech from the running man.
Cool cool cool
Who would have thought AI would be used for this?
Everyone, forever.
Everyone, forever.
That’s why it was M$ now. They go for trvial.
