In the US, where armed attacks occur regularly, many children become victims of school raids. Families who want stricter controls on individual armaments are now trying to explain their problems to senators in the voices of their dead children through an application called The Shotline. Voices created by artificial intelligence call on senators to control armaments through automated calls.

In this system, where the voices of six victims, ranging from young adults to 10-year-old children, are simulated with artificial intelligence, people enter their address codes and have their representatives called. The architects of the project, Manuel and Patricia Oliver, During an attack in 2018 In the message sent to the representatives in the voice of their deceased child Joaquin: “I came back because my family is here to call you.” use of artificial intelligence my voice reconstructed. “Other victims like me will also call,” demanding that individual armaments be checked.

Messages can be sent with the voices of 6 victims

Oliver couple will clone voices ElfLabs It uses voice cloning technology. ElevenLabs, which received an investment of $80 million a while ago, was recently featured in a smear campaign that imitated the voice of US President Biden. Some people there also ran the campaign with ElevenLabs programs. The artificial intelligence developed by the company can create speech in 12 languages ​​using a few minutes of audio recording.

On the other hand, this study is a ethical debate He took it too. While robocalls using AI-generated voices are banned, ElevenLabs allows people to clone the voices of their deceased relatives if they have the permission and rights. There is debate about whether families have the right to their children’s voice.