In recent years, AI technologies have made it possible to clone someone else's voice and make that "person" say anything you want.
You don't even
need to be an expert to do it: A quick Google search, and you can have anyone from President Biden to SpongeBob speak your words.
It's fascinating, hilarious, and terrifying.
AI voice technology
can be used for good: Apple's Personal Voice feature, for example, lets you create a version of your own voice you can use for text-to-speech, designed for people who are losing the ability to speak for themselves.
It's amazing that we have the ability to preserve people's voices, so rather than use a generic TTS voice, their words really sound
like their own.
Of course, there's the other side of the coin: the potential for rampant misinformation.
When the current tech makes it all too easy to make anyone say anything, how can you
trust that what you're listening to online was actually said?