OpenAI It is said that it was purchased weights.gga startup that offers artificial intelligence tools to reproduce people’s voices.
The acquisition took place earlier this year and covers the company’s small headcount and intellectual property, The New York Times (NYT) I mentioned Friday (May 15), citing sources familiar with the matter.
The report referred to what OpenAI revealed two years ago that it had developed the ability to imitate human voices using artificial intelligence. The company said this technology is so advanced that it has chosen not to launch it as a precaution. The New York Times added that the acquisition of Weights.gg shows that the company has continued its work in the field of voice artificial intelligence, even though its position has not changed in two years.
The report added that prior to the acquisition, Weights.gg offered a consumer app called Replay, which allows users to clone voices, including celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Samuel L. Jackson, both of whom have opposed the use of artificial intelligence to clone their voices. (Swift has even gone so far as to apply to the US Patent and Trademark Office Brand voice And likewise.)
The report also noted the history of OpenAI Copyright issuesincluding those originating from the company Closed now Sora video generation tool.
Although it’s not clear what OpenAI wants to do with the Weights team and technology, employees have been reassigned to work in different parts of the company, sources told the New York Times, adding that OpenAI is unlikely to roll out a product similar to weights.gg.
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Meanwhile, the report continued, OpenAI has focused on integrating voice technology into other parts of the company. It recently began providing information to third-party developers on how they can use OpenAI’s Application Programming Interface (API) to integrate OpenAI’s voice technology into their applications and services.
The New York Times said these uses include things like providing real-time voice translation services or using voice commands to interact with artificial intelligence agents.
Last year PYMNTS reported on research showing that artificial intelligence has reached a point where Reproduced sounds The truth is indistinguishable.
“AI-generated sounds are all around us now,” Nadine Laffan, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, said in a LiveScience report. “We did everything I talked to Alexa or Siri, or our calls were received by automated customer service systems. These things don’t exactly sound like real human voices, but it was only a matter of time until AI technology started producing natural, human-sounding speech.
