So my curiosity got the better of me and I tried some AI stuff.
Tried out multiple voices. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Hank Hill, Peter Griffin, Obama and some others.
The best ones I did was one song on the Paul voice (the rest of the songs sounded like a 14 year old Paul) and a recording I did with Peter Griffin (though that one has a lot of artifacts, but it’s very clearly Peter). John’s wasn’t good at all. I didn’t do a good enough Hank impression, and Obama sounded a bit off.
What matters I guess is how good the material the AI is working with. A man is going to have a much easier time doing Paul than a woman, and Vice versa for Beyoncé. But AI is in its nascent stages and a time could come where that’s no longer a thing.
Anyway, that one Paul and Peter recording are pretty uncanny in how close they are. I won’t post them, but if anyone wants to hear just how good AI is, I can PM you the clips.
If anyone doesn’t know, there’s a growing scam where someone spoofs the phone number of someone you know, uses video or any other recordings to train the AI, and then mimicked the person you know to scam them out of money. I never really answer phone calls that much anymore, but it may get to the point where people will have to ask “security” questions to ensure who you’re talking to is actually that person.