Joker to TechnologyEnglish • 10 hours agoAI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' timewww.mylondon.newsexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1374arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 hours agoLenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.
minus-square@KillerTofulinkEnglish0•7 hours agoThe tool has existed. Frosting it as “ai” doesn’t make it really different.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•7 hours agoAI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•7 hours agoIt’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective. Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉
Been around a while. https://www.lennytroll.com
Lenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.
The tool has existed. Frosting it as “ai” doesn’t make it really different.
AI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.
It’s amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective.
Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉