Microsoft Patents AI That Could Rewrite Livestream Speech & Alter Speakers’ Lips
Microsoft has filed a patent application for an artificial intelligence system capable of changing what people say during livestreams while simultaneously altering their lip movements to match the replacement words – which many immediately believe will be abused to punish people they don’t like or to push certain…
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