TikTok’s AI Voice Trend Exposes A Nightmare

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0:00 Introduction
1:14 Sponsor
2:51 The Rise and Fall of Prank Calls
5:24 Nicki Minaj AI Prank Call
7:00 Jojo Siwa AI Prank Call
9:40 The Surge in AI Voice Apps
10:12 TikTokers Pranking with AI Voices
12:01 The Dark Side of AI Prank Trends
12:50 Other Applications
13:26 How It Gets Even Worse
15:12 Conclusion

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[pantheo]

do people not have humanity anymore?? seriously, that poor girl getting harassed by "bakugou" sounded close to crying, my heart broke for her. what the hell are we doing here

[FacePlant]

That stuff isnt funny. These peoples jobs suck already. Y'all should use this for good like messing with scammers and stuff like that.

[JulesWees]

Isn't it AWESOME that they get paid three times my monthy wage for posting a video harrassing me for 5 minutes while I try to do my shitty job? :D Isn't AWESOME?!!! :D

[jasons]

Service workers get enough shit from crappy customers and now have to deal with some loser who doesnt even have the confidence to use their own voice for a prank call.

[norso]

Why dont they call scam centres instead? Waste scammers time

[TheAK]

“Yes, Jojo Siwa, I can go ahead and do that for you” the adult man told the computer demon voice

[collinvickers]

Why did JoJo sound like a 60-year-old chainsmoking dude?

[strippinheat]

AI voices always read long series of number like phone numbers and addresses as a single number, which is not something any human being will ever do. If you live at 1420 Main St, a person will say "fourteen twenty" or "one four two O, " but an AI will say "one thousand four hundred and twenty, " because it doesn't understand context and how humans actual communicate.

[SolaireIntensifies]

My 97 year old grandmother got an AI scam call with the voice of my mom because she picked up and decided to mess with the scammer after seeing some of those scam bait videos. They said I was in the hospital and needed money. What sick human beings... Fortunately my grandmother had been scammed before so she knew to hang up and call us directly, but how is anybody supposed to explain the complexities of AI to their grandmother? She can barely understand using the phone. It's absolutely sickening.

[justsomeguy]

the poor lady being shredded by bakugo AI in the beginning sounded like she was about to cry. whoever was recording should have stepped in (or better yet, don't do this at all??)

[pc]

Harassment content should be banned. People should not be able to profit from those videos

[one_night_gaming]

I can't believe it. This is worse than the NPC tiktok trend. No workers were harassed while pretending to be NPCs...for the most part.
Great video as always

[tablechair]

When you get a spam robocall, don't engage with the call, less you say, the safer.

[Chucanelli]

My best friend of 15+ years sent me an audio file of “him” reading out a paragraph of text. It was an AI replica. I could pinpoint a few nuances that didn’t feel quite right, but for most of it I was floored by how much it sounded just like him. It was spooky. He sent it to me to illustrate how creepy this is.

[dylnpickl]

Another chapter in "How bad will things get before regulations make their biggest comeback yet"

[kiteofdark]

"we have a lot of famous people on here"
*scrolls past femboy roommate in recent chats*

[evan]

Literally couldn’t tell you what Nicki minaj or jojo siwa sound like so I can’t tell if these are accurate

[Kgm]

Monetized bullying. I never thought such a dystopian phenomenon would exist but here we are. To be clear, if you watch AI prank videos on any platform then you should stop. It should not be necessary to explain why using the suffering of other real people as entertainment is a bad thing (and why it makes you a bad person if you participate in it).

[pagedmaj]

Honestly AI voice cloning should be banned for mass consumer use, celebrities should sue these AI companies to their grave. If you wanna clone your own voice for w/e use go for it but it should be illegal to input someone else's.