<story><title>Unauthorized &quot;David Attenborough&quot; AI clone narrates developer&apos;s life, goes viral</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousObject</author><text>This demonstration is respectful. It’s funny. It’s obvious parody.&lt;p&gt;But, the tech can be used to make disrespectful content.&lt;p&gt;Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know what we can do. Ain’t no easy answers. But do we want courts and $Lawyers deciding what is respectful?</text></item><item><author>losvedir</author><text>Someone at work shared this and I thought it was hilarious and awesome. A number of other people found it disrespectful or gross. I&amp;#x27;m sort of fascinated at the values divide.&lt;p&gt;I can see why SAG&amp;#x2F;ASTRA, or voice actors, aren&amp;#x27;t going to like this technology, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel all that different to any other industry swept away by tech, whether that&amp;#x27;s farming, horses and carriages, mining, etc. In other words, I can see the negative economic impact it will have on some people, which we may (or may not) want to protect via legislation, but I don&amp;#x27;t see how it escalates to a moral question.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Disrespectful&amp;quot; to me is flipping off David Attenborough, not getting a computer to amusingly narrate mundane things in a decent facsimile of his voice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn8305823</author><text>&amp;gt; Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.&lt;p&gt;Here you go: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;kwAEVII8FRM?si=oF0Vu5Zgk7fUgvDz&amp;amp;t=491&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;kwAEVII8FRM?si=oF0Vu5Zgk7fUgvDz&amp;amp;t=491&lt;/a&gt; (NSFW!)</text></comment>
<story><title>Unauthorized &quot;David Attenborough&quot; AI clone narrates developer&apos;s life, goes viral</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousObject</author><text>This demonstration is respectful. It’s funny. It’s obvious parody.&lt;p&gt;But, the tech can be used to make disrespectful content.&lt;p&gt;Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know what we can do. Ain’t no easy answers. But do we want courts and $Lawyers deciding what is respectful?</text></item><item><author>losvedir</author><text>Someone at work shared this and I thought it was hilarious and awesome. A number of other people found it disrespectful or gross. I&amp;#x27;m sort of fascinated at the values divide.&lt;p&gt;I can see why SAG&amp;#x2F;ASTRA, or voice actors, aren&amp;#x27;t going to like this technology, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel all that different to any other industry swept away by tech, whether that&amp;#x27;s farming, horses and carriages, mining, etc. In other words, I can see the negative economic impact it will have on some people, which we may (or may not) want to protect via legislation, but I don&amp;#x27;t see how it escalates to a moral question.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Disrespectful&amp;quot; to me is flipping off David Attenborough, not getting a computer to amusingly narrate mundane things in a decent facsimile of his voice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lord-Jobo</author><text>Courts and lawyers will do a bad job, and also the best job out of every option available. As it has been for 100 years.</text></comment>