Voice Generating-AI Is Now the Plaything of 4Chan

<p>AI has made the voice of Emma Watson say some very strange things, and 4Chan is to blame. But trolls playing with new machine-learning tools aren’t the only villain in this story. Actors are being asked to sign away the rights to their own voice for the purposes of AI reconstruction.</p><br><p>Also on today’s episode: Dutch police have been reading encrypted messages; some politicians in the UK want to ban encrypted phones; Apple is looking to roll out a new form of end-to-end encryption; and a police contractor that promised to track homeless people has been hacked.</p><br><p>Cypher. We’re bringing it back. For those that don’t know, Cypher is a special edition of Cyber where we decipher the week’s news. It’s a potpourri for the panopticon. A grab bag of tech horror stories. And who better to join us for such an adventure than Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox?</p><br><p><strong>Stories discussed in this episode:</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7mww/ai-voice-firm-4chan-celebrity-voices-emma-watson-joe-rogan-elevenlabs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse</strong></a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p49/uk-proposes-making-sale-possession-of-encrypted-phones-illegal-encrochat-sky" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal</strong></a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI</strong></a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnve9/dutch-police-read-messages-of-exclu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dutch Police Read Messages of Encrypted Messenger 'Exclu'</strong></a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzejp/how-to-turn-on-apple-i