A KI version of Stephen Fry's voice is to give a lecture at the Hay Festival this year.
Visitors can enter a soundproof cabin to hear the clone of Fry's language that leads a voice -over training session. The participants will take their own language role from his “Vocal Double”.
The installation called Vocalize is “a brilliant fusion of art and entertainment, which reveals both the miracles and the pitfalls of AI,” said Fry. “Since this technology shapes our future, it asks us to pause, reflect and question: where do we go and who can decide?”
In 2023, Fry revealed that his recordings of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books were used to create a AI version of his voice for the story of a historical documentary. “I didn't say a word about it – it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” he said at the time.
The AI tool could “let me read from a call to the Storm Parliament to hard porn, everything without my knowledge and without my permission. When he heard about it, he told his agent, who were” ballistic “.
Since then he has talked about AI several times. In January he compared AI with contaminated water and warned that in the future it could have “raw wastewater and chemicals and all types of nonsense.
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“They all with children are worried that the air they breathe is contaminated, so to speak, and that the lines of communication they have through apps and social media are dirty with raw wastewater from human hatred, craziness and care and all other horrors.
The vocalization installation will be carried out from May 22nd to June 1st. It is presented by the Arts Production Company Sage & Jester and created by Francesca Panetta, Shehehhani Fernando and Halsey Burgundy. It is partly supported by Arts Council England among other organizations.
“We wanted the audience to feel what manipulation really means,” said Vocalizes Macher. “When the viewer becomes a protagonist, the border between truth and production begins … As an artist, we are attracted not only to explore AI in order to explore his creative potential, but also to confront the risks and ethical dilemmata.”