Sun Yanzi has taken it, but iFlytek is confused. What surprises can AI bring us?

Tech 2023-05-25 04:31:57 Source: Network

Originated by Flower FinanceAuthor | Liu YuanEditor | DuoziI have no mood at all, far worse than Stefanie SunWhen the most loyal fans are still racking their brains to find an angle for roast about AI Stefanie Sun, the singer Stefanie Sun chose to "raise her hand and surrender".On the evening of May 22nd, she posted a response on social media stating that she had accepted the fact that she was an unpopular singer and that "my AI character has become the current top tier"

Originated by Flower Finance

Author | Liu Yuan

Editor | Duozi

I have no mood at all, far worse than Stefanie Sun

When the most loyal fans are still racking their brains to find an angle for roast about AI Stefanie Sun, the singer Stefanie Sun chose to "raise her hand and surrender".

On the evening of May 22nd, she posted a response on social media stating that she had accepted the fact that she was an unpopular singer and that "my AI character has become the current top tier". The so-called "no emotions, no tone, and no breathing" slots found by fans were "only a very short-term response" in her view, and AI's transcendence over humanity is "just around the corner".

Regarding copyright, Stefanie Sun did not mention anything at all, but added with a slightly heavy emphasis that not only singing, but also legal, medical, accounting and other jobs that have created millions of jobs are being "threatened" by AI. In this regard, she can only be a spectator like someone sitting in the best position of a movie theater eating popcorn.

Top notch singer AI Stefanie Sun

The popularity of AI Stefanie Sun began in April this year.

Bloggers such as "Chen Motong 1995" and "Roster_x" on Bilibili have uploaded AI Stefanie Sun cover versions of several classic tracks, including "Love Before the West", "Hair Like Snow", and "I Remember". The extremely realistic sound has quickly received a frenzy of reposts from netizens.

AI Stefanie Sun has over a thousand works on Bilibili

Subsequently, with the support of traffic, numerous bloggers participated and generated a large number of AI Stefanie Sun's cover songs, which quickly swept across major video platforms. Not only did Jay Chou, Eason Chan, Lin Junjie, Leslie Cheung, and other singers with similar musical styles to Stefanie Sun, but there were also singers with great contrasts such as Wu Bai, Zhao Lei, and second-hand roses who were covered by her.

The powerful creativity of AI has amazed Stefanie Sun herself. To be honest, facing someone who releases an album every minute is really nothing to argue about.

According to the early blogger "Monarch Xiaoya" who participated in generating AI Stefanie Sun cover songs, creating AI Stefanie Sun is not difficult. As long as there is enough data, utilizing open source AI model technology support, and paying a certain amount of time and equipment costs, even laypeople who are not familiar with computers can do it.

And the reason why it was AI Stefanie Sun who became popular on the internet, rather than AI others, was entirely a coincidence. When using AI voice replacement technology (Sovits 4.0), it is necessary to extract the singer's "dry voice material", which is quite time-consuming. And it happens that Sun Yanzi's "dry voice material" has already been extracted and can be found online, making it very convenient to use. Prince Xiaoyi also trained AI Naying to sing the songs of Dao Lang (which had conflicts between the two) according to netizens' requirements, but due to material limitations, the effect was much worse.

AI Stefanie Sun satisfies netizens' infinite imagination

Although Stefanie Sun herself has no objections, the industry is extremely nervous about the arrival of AI Stefanie Sun.

Since April, Universal Music has been sending requests to websites to ask them to delete songs generated by AI, on the grounds that "the platform has basic legal and moral responsibility to prevent artists from using its services in a way that harms them." Public data shows that overseas, users who use AI Rihanna to cover Beyonce's CuffIt have been appealed by the song copyright owner Universal Music.

The popularity of AI Stefanie Sun has also put infringement pressure on the operators of the AI tool so vits svc model. Starting from May 9th, it has stopped updating and issued a statement stating, "I do not know or cannot know the purpose of users using this project. All AI models and synthesized audio trained based on this project are not related to the project contributors, and all issues arising from this will be borne by the users themselves.

Hard to distinguish between real and fake live streaming digital people

In fact, compared to AI digital people, Stefanie Sun, who has gained popularity through celebrity traffic, can only be considered a minor.

As early as Halloween in 2021, virtual human @ Liu Yexi had a hot search with a "ghost hunting" video that gained 1.3 million followers, and digital human technology broke through and entered the public's view. However, at this stage, there is a clear difference between the appearance of digital people and real people, and they can easily see the fake at a glance.

More and more authentic digital people

By 2022, with the breakthrough of AIGC technology, the new generation of digital humans can not only present a high-fidelity "human" appearance, but also perform various smooth body movements, with extremely low production costs.

Taking the AI intelligent creation assistant "Tencent Smart Shadow" released by Tencent in March this year as an example, creators can obtain their own digital avatar and customized voice by uploading a small amount of images, videos, and audio materials, and then quickly generate their own digital person broadcast videos, which cost only 8 yuan per minute.

Small and medium-sized businesses, which are extremely sensitive to cost control, have begun to heavily use digital human anchors in live streaming rooms.

These digital people anchors look almost identical to real people, and their mouth shape and voice can match. If you do not look carefully, it is difficult to identify whether the anchors are digital people or not. So many times, after being ignored by the anchor, some viewers can't help but ask: Is the anchor AI?

AI anchors compete with real people in the same game

Considering the conversion issue of live streaming with goods, currently, merchants and enterprises mostly use a combination of real and digital people for live streaming. During the golden time period with good traffic, real people are responsible for appearing on the screen. Once the real person anchor is released, digital person anchors will start playing to fill the time gap and seize users that were difficult to reach in the past.

Faced with the surging wave of AI, the platform has a positive attitude. Following the "Platform Specification and Industry Initiative on AI Generated Content" released by Tiktok on May 9, which standardized the live broadcast of virtual people and AI assisted content generation, on May 23, Taobao Tmall also announced to launch the "AI Ecological Partnership Plan", open the business scenarios of seven major businesses, and take the lead in promoting the application and development of AI technology in the e-commerce field.

Dai Shan, CEO of Taotian Group, bluntly stated that in the future, AI related consumer applications will bloom everywhere, and the changes AI has made to consumer habits are "irresistible and irreversible".

IFLYTEK, which was deceived by 4.3 million yuan and surrounded by rumors

Using fake AI to confuse real AI also overjoyed a group of people engaged in special professions.

On April 20th, Mr. Guo, the legal representative of a certain company in Fuzhou, suddenly received a WeChat video call from a friend. After a brief chat, the friend told him that his friend was bidding in a foreign place and needed a deposit of 4.3 million yuan. He needed to use his company account to transfer funds and wanted to borrow Mr. Guo's company account to transfer funds.

Various strange applications of AI

Subsequently, in the video, a friend asked Mr. Guo for his bank card number, claiming that the money had been transferred to Mr. Guo's account. They also sent a screenshot of the bank transfer receipt to Mr. Guo through WeChat.

We're all chatting on video, what else can we suspect? Mr. Guo received a screenshot and, without verifying whether the money had been credited, transferred 4.3 million yuan in two separate transactions to the other party. After the money transfer, Mr. Guo sent a message to his friend's WeChat stating that the matter had been completed. But to his surprise, his friend came back with a '?'.

When he called, the other party said that there was no such thing, and he realized that he had encountered a "high-end" scam. The other party used AI face changing technology to pretend that their friends had carried out a "precise" scam on him.

If it weren't for the successful pursuit of stolen goods by the Baotou police, it would be difficult to believe that this was true if it were not for the case being posted on the official account.

In previous telecommunications scams, most scams were self defeating as long as they were in voice and video contact with family and friends. However, now voice and video are no longer trustworthy and will continue to become increasingly untrustworthy. It has become an indisputable fact that AI has changed fraud.

It's not just ordinary people who will be deceived by AI.

Just before the release of Huahua Finance, iFLYTEK, which called out to make its "iFLYTEK Spark" surpass "Chatgpt" within the year, saw its stock plummet 9 points in the session due to a news that it was suspected of collecting a large amount of user privacy data and using it for artificial intelligence research. After the market closed, media investigations found that the news was actually written by a generative AI.

Source: ERNIE Bot

The same question was raised by Huahua Finance and Economics to ERNIE Bot, who got another article that said "iFLYTEK is suspected of installing malware on its partner Huawei's smart speakers, aiming to steal users' personal information and privacy".

Serious nonsense! "Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360, who also invested heavily in developing the AI big model, has already pointed out its drawbacks directly. Now it seems that this feature of AI will also make it a hotbed of rumors and fake news.

Will artificial intelligence make our lives better or will it have catastrophic consequences? It is not yet known.

*This article is based on public information and is for information exchange purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice

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