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AI DEMOS: Turning Adele into John Mayer, animating a Jedi Bulldog, AI companions and much more!  | E1867

This Week in Startups

Mon Dec 18 2023



AI-Generated Characters:

  • An app called DG allows users to create AI characters and start relationships with them, displaying emotions and reactions.
  • The concept of AI companions raises societal questions about loneliness, technology's impact on human connection, and ethical considerations.
  • Differing views exist on the implications of AI companions, including concerns about pandering to unrealistic standards and potential benefits for individuals experiencing loneliness.

Responsibility of AI Creators:

  • Creators of AI companions should consider their responsibility in shaping the eventual outcome of these relationships.
  • External advice from academia or similar sources can provide guidance for founders navigating ethically complex areas like AI companionship.
  • Consideration must be given to potential impacts on society, and creators should proactively assess safeguards and implications before releasing such technologies.

Monitoring Conversations:

  • Monitoring conversations within AI companion apps may be necessary to ensure user safety and security.
  • Systems could be designed to flag concerning language indicating imminent threats of harm, similar to professional obligations in fields like therapy or education.

AI Models with Guardrails:

  • Psychologists and therapists are required to report when individuals express intentions of harming themselves or others.
  • AI models, especially frontier models like chat GPT, have guardrails to provide advice and guidance to prevent self-harm.
  • These AI models do a good job of offering advice and guiding individuals away from self-harm.

Vercel's Generation Tool:

  • Vercel has developed a generation tool allowing users to create different samples of feedback pages that can be made installable into applications.
  • The tool enables the creation of highly shareable modules through infrastructure, facilitating community contributions and sharing within the Vercel platform.

Pika Labs' Prompt-to-Video Generation:

  • Pika Labs offers prompt-to-video generation technology, enabling users to create diverse video clips such as dark fantasy scenes, ducks in a pond, or anime scenes.
  • Users can opt into sharing their generated content within the Pika platform while also providing feedback on the generated creations to improve the AI model.

Hugging Face's Voice Conversion Technology:

  • Hugging Face has developed a model capable of converting singing voices from one artist to another with impressive accuracy.
  • The potential for this technology is evident as it could lead to indistinguishable audio covers resembling those sung by renowned artists like John Mayer or Beyonce.

AI-Generated Music Covers:

  • AI technology can convert a singer's voice into another artist's, such as turning Adele's voice into John Mayer's.
  • The model for this technology is open source and allows short samples of around four seconds to be converted.
  • This presents an opportunity for creating derivative works from existing songs and could potentially generate new revenue streams for artists.

Legal and Ethical Implications of AI-Created Content:

  • The conversation delves into the legal and ethical considerations surrounding the creation of AI-generated music covers.
  • It raises questions about permissions required for using artists' voices in AI covers and emphasizes the importance of respecting copyright laws.

Potential Impact on Artistic Expression:

  • The discussion highlights the potential impact of AI-generated content on artistic expression, particularly in reinterpreting and covering existing songs.
  • It envisions a future where platforms like Spotify could incorporate these capabilities, offering users the opportunity to create personalized versions of their favorite tracks.

AI-Powered Fashion Generation:

  • An exploration of a model that allows clothing to be generated through prompts and then styled onto a digital model, presenting opportunities for e-commerce applications.
  • Additionally, it showcases the capability to style arbitrary images onto the digital models, indicating potential use cases in fashion design and product visualization.

Future Applications in E-commerce:

  • There is anticipation regarding the further development and integration of this technology within e-commerce platforms like Shopify, emphasizing its potential impact on fashion retailing.