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AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time (www.mylondon.news)
submitted 5 months ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Been around a while. https://www.lennytroll.com

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lenny isn't AI; it's just a collection of prerecorded messages.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The tool has existed. Frosting it as “ai” doesn’t make it really different.

[–] dan@upvote.au 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago

It's amazing how simple something like this can be and still be effective.

Machine learning is not that necessary for this use case 😉