Music and the Transhuman Ear: Ultrasonics, Material Bodies, and the Limits of Sensation

Trippett, David

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“…regardless of who that person was: self or other). This attitude may be an effect of describing the device in our cover story as a physical prosthesis, for which ‘installing’ it covertly would be seen as an unacceptable breach of consent–autonomy [ 49 ]. To control for physicality, future work could e.g.…”

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The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes

Guerouaou

Vaïva

Aucouturier

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Rapid technological advances in artificial intelligence are creating opportunities for real-time algorithmic modulations of a person’s facial and vocal expressions, or ‘deep-fakes’. These developments raise unprecedented societal and ethical questions which, despite much recent public awareness, are still poorly understood from the point of view of moral psychology. We report here on an experimental ethics study conducted on a sample of N = 303 participants (predominantly young, western and educated), who evaluated the acceptability of vignettes describing potential applications of expressive voice transformation technology. We found that vocal deep-fakes were generally well accepted in the population, notably in a therapeutic context and for emotions judged otherwise difficult to control, and surprisingly, even if the user lies to their interlocutors about using them. Unlike other emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, there was no evidence of social dilemma in which one would, for example, accept for others what they resent for themselves. The only real obstacle to the massive deployment of vocal deep-fakes appears to be situations where they are applied to a speaker without their knowing, but even the acceptability of such situations was modulated by individual differences in moral values and attitude towards science fiction. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part II)’.

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The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes

Guerouaou

Vaïva

Aucouturier

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Even though there was no effect of self vs other, covert dilemma were very strongly biased against lying to the person wearing the prosthesis (regardless of who that person was). This attitude may be an effect of describing the device in our cover story as a physical prosthesis, for which 'installing' it covertly would be seen as an unacceptable breach of consent/autonomy [58]. To control for physicality, future work could e.g.…”

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The shallow of your smile: The ethics of expressive vocal deepfakes

Guerouaou¹,

Vaïva²,

Aucouturier³

2021

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Rapid technological advances in artificial intelligence are creating opportunities for real-time algorithmic modulations of a person’s facial and vocal expressions, or “deep- fakes”. These developments raises unprecedented societal and ethical questions which, despite much recent public awareness, are still poorly understood from the point of view of moral psychology. We report here on an empirical study conducted on N=303 online participants, who evaluated the acceptability of vignettes describing potential applications of expressive voice transformation technology. We found that vocal deep- fakes were generally well accepted in the population, notably in a therapeutic context and for emotions judged otherwise difficult to control, and surprisingly, even if the user lies to their interlocutors about using them. Unlike other emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, there was no evidence of social dilemma in which one would e.g. accept for others what they resent for themselves. The only real obstacle to the massive deployment of vocal deep-fakes appears to be situations where they are applied to a speaker without their knowing, but even the acceptability of such situations was modulated by individual differences in moral values and attitude towards science- fiction.

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“…Even though there was no effect of self -other, covert dilemma were very strongly biased against lying to the person wearing the prosthesis (i.e., regardless of who that person was: self or other). This attitude may be an effect of describing the device in our cover story as a physical prosthesis, for which 'installing' it covertly would be seen as an unacceptable breach of consent -autonomy [66]. To control for physicality, future work could e.g.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The shallow of your smile: The ethics of expressive vocal deepfakes

Guerouaou¹,

Vaïva²,

Aucouturier³

2021

Preprint

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Rapid technological advances in artificial intelligence are creating opportunities for real-time algorithmic modulations of a person’s facial and vocal expressions, or “deep- fakes”. These developments raises unprecedented societal and ethical questions which, despite much recent public awareness, are still poorly understood from the point of view of moral psychology. We report here on an experimental ethics study conducted on a sample of N=303 participants (predominantly young, western and educated), who evaluated the acceptability of vignettes describing potential applications of expressive voice transformation technology. We found that vocal deep-fakes were generally well accepted in the population, notably in a therapeutic context and for emotions judged otherwise difficult to control, and surprisingly, even if the user lies to their interlocutors about using them. Unlike other emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, there was no evidence of social dilemma in which one would e.g. accept for others what they resent for themselves. The only real obstacle to the massive deployment of vocal deep-fakes appears to be situations where they are applied to a speaker without their knowing, but even the acceptability of such situations was modulated by individual differences in moral values and attitude towards science-fiction.

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Music and the Transhuman Ear: Ultrasonics, Material Bodies, and the Limits of Sensation

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The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes

The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes

The shallow of your smile: The ethics of expressive vocal deepfakes

The shallow of your smile: The ethics of expressive vocal deepfakes

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