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Huh. One of the English Voice Clone examples features Obama.

Distinct, characteristic voice. My first to play with will be Morgan Freeman.

I think the other sounds like Steve Jobs - I could be wrong though!

Wouldn't that break Jagex's TOS though? Is there a way of getting caught?

I imagine Jagex must be up there with having the most sophisticated bot detection out of anyone. Its been a thing for decades

They detect bots but let a ton of them run free because any character having membership = revenue and an extremely significant chunk of active characters are bots. They nuked them all in 2011 I think and the game was nearly empty.

SirPugger's youtube channel has loads of videos monitoring various bot farms.


Replace Venezuela with Iraq, and Maduro with Saddam, and read this whole comment section. We never learn.


That was different. There was an ultimatum, there was a coalition.

Yes, the recreational wars were dumb, wrong, illegal and just all around bad ideas.

But there was a solid attempt at giving them legitimacy. This matters.


You’re describing how Iraq was sold, not why it was justified.


Oh, I wouldn't want to justify it ;)

But the fact that it had to be sold was probably a good thing.


This is more Panama 1989 than Iraq 2003.


It is early in the news but I also read about the US working on directly having the nation transition. Gives me bad vibes as someone who lived through the invasion of Iraq. TBH, I am not very knowledgeable but I assume there's less sectarianism and lack of infrastructure so it is a different situation. Although with all things Trump, it's his execution and competency following through after the immediate ready decision.


Yeah, I also read that in the news, which was the thought behind my comment honestly.


how can you possibly make such a call so early on


I like the idea of using vintage LLMs to study explicit and implicit bias. e.g. text before mid-19th century believing in racial superiority, gender discrimination, imperial authority or slavery. Comparing that to text since then. I'm sure there are more ideas when you use temporal constraints on training data.


They also search online and return links, though? And, you can steer them when they do that to seek out more "authoritative" sources (e.g. news reports, publications by reputable organizations).

If you pay for it, ChatGPT can spend upwards of 5 minutes going out and finding you sources if you ask it to.

Those sources can than be separately verified, which is up to the user - of course.


Right, but now you are not talking about an LLM generating from it's training data - you are talking about an agent that is doing web search, and hopefully not messing it up when it summarizes it.


Yes, because most of the things that people talk about (ChatGPT, Google SERP AI summaries, etc.) currently use tools in their answers. We're a couple years past the "it just generates output from sampling given a prompt and training" era.


It depends - some queries will invoke tools such as search, some won't. A research agent will be using search, but then summarizing and reasoning about the responses to synthesize a response, so then you are back to LLM generation.

The net result is that some responses are going to be more reliable (or at least coherently derived from a single search source) than others, but at least to the casual user, maybe to most users, it's never quite clear what the "AI" is doing, and it's right enough, often enough, that they tend to trust it, even though that trust is only justified some of the time.


Wouldn't being a UK company not shield you from the "eyes" surveillance apparatus?


Can you back up your claim that it's slow?


A side project that takes legal documents and uses TTS models to create a narrated read out of the whole document.

Part of the reason I'm building my own solution is that legal documents are often distributed in PDFs which can have all kinds of formatting issues when converted to plain text. There's also specific jargon and formatting that may or may not need to be included, or spoken, or even spoken differently, that I am finding no commercial TTS platform like ElevenLabs really accounts for well. It's all about the pre-processing and chunking.

Also, the commercial models are expensive when you're routinely throwing dozens of pages of text at it.


Oh so cool! Do you know of other themes like it, also open source?



Unfortunately not, I've just had this one opened in my browser for ages as a reminder (after seeing it on HN IIRC) and recognised it again in the OP instantly :)


What does it mean though, practically? What could I do with a thread-enabled iPhone?


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