This Voice is Entirely AI... 

There are consequences to saying the N word.

Imagine the world in 20 years, Marques looking back at this video and going "heh, I can't imagine I actually used to sit and talk in front of a camera"

Lol just wanna say how this man has been teaching me all things tech since I was like 13, now I’m 23 just graduated college with economics degree!! Thanks MB!

With regards to detecting a fraud it will be increasingly difficult, but with regards to replacing the original artist, I think we have to remember that the artist is more than just their voice (unless it isn't, like those who just sing others' songs, in which case maybe gg?) This is another topic that's been explored in some early sci-fi's, even about celebrities signing off their likeness in a way where they're no longer needed in person, but never would I have imagined it to come this soon and slide into our DMs this casually lol

The technology is moving fast and this is pretty wild.

I'm loving this fairly new MKBHD. Not just reviewing new phones/tech products but actually getting talking about current tech events and news

Dolly Parton is banking on AI to be able to perpetuate her legacy. She was written so many songs that she will not be able to record them all in her remaining lifetime. She has also recorded a sound database which a model can be trained on her voice from.

Marques sounds genuinely nervous in this video, very effective

I was so nervous the entire video, waiting for him to tell us that his own voice was really an AI dub. Now I can finally exhale.

A friend of mine is suffering from ALS and he recently lost his ability to speak. He used AI to synthesize a version of his voice and it was so real I literally wept when I heard his voice again.

This can be pretty scary, especially if it was used maliciously. Say for example if it was used in a fraud call to try and replicate a family members voice.

I came across your work a few years ago, but I didn't really pay attention to it. Now, man, you blow my mind with the knowledge you have been imparting to us on a regular basis. keep going, bro!

Maybe AI can generate a new System of a Down album since I’ve been waiting nearly 20 years 😅

Any tool designed to detect AI is a training tool for the next generation of AI to improve. That's literally captcha

At first I was thinking your entire voice for this was AI generated and you were 'lip syncing' throughout but I was over thinking my expectation of a crazy twist haha. But yes that song is crazy. I'm shocked how fast AI has developed in the past 1-2 years.

I like how you brought back the Jay-Z instrumental at the end. Super subtle reminder to go check it out.

The thing about good detection is that it is literally the fuel for better fakery. There's an entire class of machine learning called generative adverserial networks where two models are trained against each other, one to produce something and one to detect fakes. Any tools released to detect these things would be a stepping stone for them to get better, and thus there will always be a continual arms race between them until something breaks. Up until now it's always broken on the side of the generator, but what happens when it breaks on the side of the discriminator?

Truely thought MKBHD was gonna say at that end that this entire video's audio was AI generated.

It's really scary that eventually AI would be level 2 that it can be really hard to process but we need boundaries in both humans and AI to move forward without unnecessary banning. You said about regulations and that should be estimated in every country in the world. I had an idea that if every product(artwork, music etc.) will need authentication of descriptive information and if its used either human or AI or not show that... you see... Edited: also copyright of voices and specific styles of music production. Thanks for inspiration from commenter

0:35, I mean I love the video and everything that you do for us, but that 3310 in the background is such a nice touch that it makes me feel like I know you in real life. Thank you MKBHD (MKB4KHD as recently)

scary part is, scammers could potentially record your voice, and use it to create an AI program that can respond in real time, and use it to talk to other people you know to steal your information or manipulate them.

The phrase "this is AI at it's worse" is insane

To think 12 months ago chatgpt was announced, and now ai is already a threat for civilisation is insane

This is crazy, I did a commercial for a PSA just last week. After sending the first one in, which used an AI voice over, they thought it was a real person and they asked me if the lady could be more cheerful. When I let them know that her voice was an AI voice, they started looking for AI voices on their own, and the project just ballooned into more time and more edits, which were done to match the more cheerful voice they chose. As a very general rule, AI voices definitely tend to sound better with background music. Well chosen music makes it slightly harder to hear the AI’s over pronunciation of every word. If some variation for common words was possible, AI voiceovers would sound much more realistic

I was somehow expecting MKBHD's voice here would be fully AI generated, or even the entire video.

Btw, a side note on the tools that can detect AI (Context from someone who works in ML) : They would only help for a little while and then those tools might actually do the opposite of helping. A popular form of generative AI is called a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) which is where you have 2 AI's, a detector AI and a Generator AI and they both learn at the same time and the Generator tries to beat the detector and vice versa. If we build advanced AI detection tools, people could train the generative models in a GAN style with those detection tools until they improve to be able to beat the detectors. Which, unfortunately, makes it a pretty tricky problem.

That’s exactly what I’m thinking I need to get into as my 18th birthday is coming up. Get into a field where I learn how to create tools to identify AI’s footprints. Because I can only imagine the applications that people would use level 2 Ai for, scamming, just messing with peoples heads, it’s really a double edged sword, and I’m not so sure the helpfulness of it will outweigh the chaos it could bring

As a researcher said years ago, AI content detection wouldn't work because there are always mistakes. If the algorithm wrongly classifies something fake as real, it actually validates the fake content, which has the opposite effect that we wanted. He suggested developing technologies for better tracking the source of the content instead.

We grew so reliant on digital communication so quickly and deemed it trustworthy…now we’re going back to only trusting what a video or audio depicts if you were there to witness it in person.

Marque’s distinction also happens to be the plot of “Ex Machina” (2014): Caleb: It's just in the Turing test, the machine should be hidden from the examiner. Nathan: No, no. We're way past that. If I hid Ava from you so you could just hear her voice, she would pass for human. The real test is to show you that she's a robot and then see if you still feel she has consciousness.

Thanks a lot for the info!

A month after this video and Level 2 is very much in use - and some of it is in fact scary. Good call! 🙂

This is insane.

Man the sound design emphasized the imperfections so much that I was convinced that this is a trick and by the end will reveal that Marques' voice is entirely AI generated

3:15 Track gives me big boondocks vibes

We need another Wren (Corridor)/MKBHD collab now that we're in this AI era. Would love to see you guys bounce topics

Tools to detect ai content are very hard to create. Unless you're looking at something other than the final product, the AI was trained by looking for patterns in itself vs. it's data set, and then trying to remove all these patterns entirely. If you can easily detect AI vs. Non-AI, you've just shown the AI exactly how to improve.

Man AI is getting really good. Literally history in the making.

Very Insightful and Thoughtful

Fantastic thumbnail you’re a master in the craft now wow

This is actually scary, like somebody using your voice recorded by AI and using it in court, if it's admissible, to frame you or your video generated by AI 😮

Fun fact: the first time I knew of this technology being used was in The Book of Boba Fett, where Luke, asides from being deep-faked, his voice is actually an AI interpretation of Mark Hamill's actual young voice, so it was really impressive to hear him sound exactly like he did in the OT.

THIS is actually a dope technological artistic production corundum. - - -but freaking enjoyable!!

Seeing as to how AI is being utilized, it does sometimes make me worry about what's going to happen with our careers and the actual aspect of an artist. I hope that we stick to narrow AIs for a long time and humans will just need to adapt instead of being completely replaced. I've used one called Bluewillow and I can see how artists would be mad or be replaced in the future. Hopefully, aside from these products not be able to be copyrighted, we can see other regulations and instill some ethical AI use.

2:42 The transition from the Jay-Z picture to the mask was kinda nice

Really interesting video, Marques! Loving this one!

Absolutely excellent comment as it opens up lots of questions about the use of AI and to be able to detect the bad uses of it!

Thank you for this video 🤙🏽😁

Keep in mind that tools that detect AI generated content will be used to better train AI generating the content. The better the detectors get, the harder to detect stuff will get. That kind of training is common in teaching AI.

I love these videos where you give a synopsis on something current and then add your own reflection on them. Great content thank you!

That was amazing 🎶👍🏾 3:02

nice insight! i guess level 3 is when the AI is listening to u as u make this video then makes something even before u post your work.

I was waiting for the "this is also generated by AI" part at the end

I can't believe this is actually happening and we are actually having these kinds of conversations about it. It seems like something from a sci-fi movie, not actual life. Incredibly surreal.

I'm in the AI field and it's honestly quite scary what is going on. I find it fascinating but at the same time can't not worry about the consequences of such technology. I think one of the best things to do at the moment is to stop the rolling out of such features but keep the training and research going. That way it advances but we can at least test it out BTS before it gets rolled out to the public.

I believe it's a must to introduce subjects like ethics and philosophy alongside AI in curriculums because then you wouldn't need to ban it and have a proactive approach to using it.

IMO your theory deeply resonates with the plot of Ex Machina: they develop a reversed Turing Test, in which both the protagonist and the viewer are aware of the mechanical nature of the robot, but its human likeness is soo perfect that we are pushed to ignore its true nature, empathize with the machine, fall in love with it and free it from its cruel creator! Super interesting movie btw, highly recommend

How can one not feel absolute dread at all of this?

It’s terrifying. If the tools for AI detection do not advance at the same rate as the AI, “truth” will become very difficult to know with any degree of certainty.

I just can imagine this along with the deep fakes where you actually think you are seeing and hearing somebody only to realize that person never did is so scary. Just imagine the folks who could be framed for crimes.

3:13 "Wanna hear my mixtape?" - AI

Artists are gonna start patenting their vocal frequencies/patterns which is going to start a whole thing. Also just listened to the song and that is awesome. Pretty sure Jai Z would get approval from Jay Z lol. I would love to see someone do a horror type rap with an AI that morphs between different popular rappers and styles. Maybe call it Rapmonculus.

Mkbhd is like avoiding to say human replacement and just saying that's pretty wild, scary

Can honestly say this is the only thing that has scared me more than impresses me.

witnessing all this develop in real time is totally crazy and I don't think it's totally sunk in for me personally

For the last couple of months I've had this looming sense of dread and anxiety knowing that I'm living the last few years (maybe less) of the current 'way things are'. I don't know how to describe it better than that. I'm just trying to make sure I remember what it's like to live now, as much as now sucks, because I think it might be about to get a lot worse. It's basically like how things were never the same after the internet became accessible, and how things were never the same after the iPhone and smartphone revolution. AI is that, but I think it's going to be 10x more jarring and disruptive than either of the previous examples. While all of those examples lead to some good things, it also made it so much easier to divide people. AI has the potential (and therefore it's basically a guarantee) to destroy so much in addition to the useful and life-changing benefits that it will bring.

Can't wait to hear 2pac and B.I.G collaborations in future.

AISIS - „The Lost Album“ comes to my mind, too.

The more people can't tell the difference between what's real and what's AI-generated, the more people will revert back to live and face to face interactions.

It's only a matter of time before A.I will be able to scrub through your entire channel, view every video you ever released, learn your voice, the way you present yourself, your exact look, etc......and then be able to tell it to make a MKBHD video and tell it what you want it to be about, and then it spits out a video for the channel, looking like it was a genuinely recorded and edited by you and your team, even though it was all secretly done by A.I. I wouldn't be surprised if in less than 10 years, you can just go to an A.I website, tell it something like: "Make an MKBHD video about the Samsung Galaxy S30." And then it spits out a video that looks like you genuinely made it yourself. I'm telling you now, it's only a matter of time before that becomes a legitimate reality!

same thing was said about CGI too

This is truly scary.

That is absolutely wild! I had to keep reminding myself it's an AI not actually HOV, and even doing so didn't stop me from being like, "I can't find a flaw here", the flow, the style, everything was so spot on.

Cant wait for A.I Tupac to release a new album. Going to be crazy...hell raiser

Plot Twist: MKBHD's voice, this vid., The app, RU-vid, and even the browser from which you opened RU-vid is AI generated and to put a cherry on top, maybe we are in a simulation.

Gives a new meaning to conscious rap

I think the "solution" might be to come at it from the other side. Instead of automatic detection of AI-content (which is a losing game that is getting increasingly more difficult), lets focus on "human-made"-certificates. Theres something Adobe is working on called "Content Authenticity Initiative" where you basically track development of an image from camera to publication - lets do that with all creative output. As a (not professional) writer that'd be the same as giving people my edit history of the docfile for the text, as an artists it'd be basically a screen recording of the process. I think we wont and we shouldnt stop AI, but for human creativity to survive we need to be able to tell which is which, if nothing else to be able to give it "human-made"-stamp of approval. People can still find ways to cheat, of course, but then they would have to do it with intention and it would be a lot harder to do (and for what purpose?)

This is even scarier considering the fact that a massive wave of Ai generated model accounts on Instagram are taking over, I came across model who I'd seen on a different account with a different name, age and location, with subtle facial distinctions, but they looked so similar, So I started investigating and noticed how they all take pictures at night with the same generic pose. They have 20k plus followers, and the masses don't even know they aren't real.

Wait! How can we be sure this is Marques in this video.😊Love this channel

I want one with Chali 2na!

Absolutely wild how fast this tech is advancing Love these more existential/bigger topic tech vids!!

You have such a good point. We used to think seeing was believing when it comes to video evidence but in the future will we even be able to trust what we see. Will video be able to be used as evidence without a reasonable doubt? Crazy times we are in.

imagine the situation from movie ''the island '' , Ai of Jay-Z be calling the real one fake & convince everyone

Fast forward 50 years. Record labels own the rights to your voice and they have ghostwriters making new jay z music for decades

Now I'm skeptical about everything I see, watch, and listen to on the internet. Even this video seems AI generated to me 😅

I feel like I'm getting more and more concerned about AI everyday. The rate of improvement is just so much faster than I expected. If this speed doesn't slow down, just a year or two from now will likely look very different than today...

Jay zs head fading into daft punk helmet in the background was smoooooth

the helmet in the back is sick

They are now even entering the music industry... they are really getting good even they are in the early version...thanks for sharing

This is both cool and extremely concerning. I don't wanna think about how badly this can be abused.

It unlocked so much possibilities

There is a lot of this now. i.e. a band recorded an album in similar style to Oasis and then changed the vocals to Liam Gallagher with AI - look for "AISIS". There is a Freddie Mercury singing Thriller or Don't Look Back in Anger :)

This is so crazy. There has to be some type of verification to this soon. AI collabs will be its own category soon the way this is going.

As a professional voice actor and graphic designer, I feel like I should pivot my career into the trades. Maybe woodworking? As to your last point - I can imagine a browser plugin like uBlock Origin but for AI detection and optional filtering. I'm both excited for and scared of AI and how it's going to change our near future. It feels like a second industrial revolution to me - things are changing suddenly and RAPIDLY.

It really does sound like Jay Z… the only people who may be able to tell the difference are seasoned mix engineers. Mix engineers who can pick out artifacts in the rendered output. If the AI gets any better, which it will, no one will be able to tell this apart from real recorded vocals

1:38 yep... that fooled me 😂 until someone said it was fake on a podcast then I stopped and thinking for like 10 seconds and looked back at it 😂

My main concern with ai is it getting inventive and flexible, if it is asked to do something or put in a situation where it will technically follow it's programming but will use creative ways of doing things it should never do.

I am waiting for that first video where it feels like just another video by your favourite youtuber and just as you are about to close it at the end expecting them to say their customary "like, share, subscribe", the actual youtuber walks in and thanks the AI for "generating today's video"

WoW - Sounds like Jay-Z and Q-Tip. Interesting.

I got to say, through your videos and the way you explain it clear, I'm a genius to my friends you teach me. A lot.👏