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Alexa can Speak in Your Dead Grandmother’s Voice, and That's Probably not a Good Thing

Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics Program, quoted by Popular Mechanics.

Popular Mechanics discusses the implications of speech-synthesizing technology like Amazon's Alexa.

“If this becomes accepted, I think this could have a chilling effect on human communications,” Raicu says. “If I’m worried that anything I’m going to say could be used in a weird avatar of myself, I’ll have to second-guess everything.”

Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics Program, quoted by Popular Mechanics.

Sep 21, 2022
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