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AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound (www.washington.edu)
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[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Ok, so this concept is cool, but has a few problems...

  1. Privacy, this is far too complex to run on the headphones themselves, so the system will need to connect to a server to do the heavy lifting, what happens to the data once it used? For legal purposes I suspect it will need to be saved, meaning that any thing recorded could be analyzed or monitored.
  2. Trust, AI models have rules in place to make them act in specific ways, the owner of the AI system used could tweak it to change what spoken or how it is said, this could push political agendas in everyday conversations.
  3. Reduced lingual skills, an AI like this would reduce the incentive to learn another language, reducing people's international direct communications, increasing dependancy on the AI service, further reducing our lingual skills.

This is scary...

[โ€“] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago

I'm with you on 1 and 2, but "reduced lingual skills" I think is a bit of a stretch. Becoming fluent in another language takes a lot of effort and people only do it if they have a good long term reason.

I think it's more likely this would cover the vacation / short term business case that is already covered by human interpreters (or apps already) instead.

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