Bobby Turkalino

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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Everyone else is gonna be like “if you don’t have at least 3 backups of something blahblah” but you know, not everyone has the finances for that, so advice from a cheapskate computer nerd: when going through critical transfers/reformats/deletions like you were doing, ALWAYS try actually recovering stuff from the backup before you cross the point of no return. E.g. if the backup is a .zip, extract a few individual files from it and open them in their respective programs.



  • It would be worth finding out more about how exactly the training process works, namely whether or not the AI company stores the training audio clips after training has been completed. If not, then I would say you don’t have anything to worry about, because the model itself can’t be used to clone your voice to any useful extent. Deep neural networks aren’t reversible like that. Even if they were, it’s not just trained on you, it’s trained on hundreds of thousands of people then fine-tuned to you.

    If they do store the clips though, then maybe show them this article about GitHub to prove to them that there is precedence for private companies using people’s data to train AI without their explicit consent.