ChatGPT delayed a feature that people shouldn’t be allowed to use anyway
ChatGPT has grown a lot in the past few years, with OpenAI releasing several exciting features along the way. ChatGPT can now reason to offer more in-depth answers to questions, and it produces detailed Deep Research reports on any chosen topic. Also impressive is the chatbot’s ability to generate images and edit photos. Then there’s Operator, an AI agent that lets ChatGPT browse the web for you. On top of that, OpenAI has released various models, including preview modes, and further improved the default ChatGPT model that most people use.
But there’s one AI tool that OpenAI hasn’t brought to ChatGPT or released as a separate AI program, despite announcing it more than a year ago. It’s called Voice Engine, a piece of AI software that can clone a voice after listening to a single 15-second audio sample.
Needless to say, that’s an incredibly scary feature to release out in the wild. I warned you about how dangerous it is the minute OpenAI announced it in late March 2024.
Voice cloning has abuse written all over it. I’m not referring just to malicious actors creating fake audio files by cloning the voices of politicians and celebrities, or hackers trying to swindle you. I’m also thinking about the average Joe who might think it’s fun to clone a friend’s voice and have them say god knows what.
More than a year later, OpenAI’s voice cloning tool still isn’t widely available in ChatGPT or as a standalone app. It’s only accessible to a short list of partners, and there’s no telling when OpenAI will release it into the wild.
I’m hoping that happens in a distant future, one where the larger audience is AI-savvy enough to tell cloned audio from a real voice, or OpenAI and other AI firms develop tech that clearly labels cloned voices as AI-generated.
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