This advanced technology opens the door for companies such as Lyrebird to provide new services and products. Lyrebird uses artificial intelligence to create voices for chatbots, audiobooks, videos games, text readers and more. They acknowledge on their website that “with great innovation comes great responsibility” underscoring the importance of pioneers of this technology to take great care to avoid misuse of the technology.
How This Technology Could Be Misused
Similar to other new technologies, artificial voice can have many benefits but can be also be used to mislead individuals as well. As the AI algorithms get better and it becomes difficult to discern what’s real and what’s artificial, there will be more opportunities to use it to fabricate the truth.
According to research, our brains don’t register significant differences between real and artificial voices. In fact, it’s harder for our brains to distinguish fake voices than to detect fakes images.
