A tool to prevent your voice from being cloned by artificial intelligence

We’ve learned about “deepfakes,” videos that can make anyone say anything. Now here is a new program, developed by American researchers, to fight misinformation and protect your voice.

It is the shepherd’s response to the shepherd, a kind of vaccine. Because it is true that with the latest software, a recording of about thirty seconds is enough to reproduce any sound : The personality of a celebrity, politician, or neighbor. But now we also have the antidote !

In fact, it’s a filter that will add subtle, precisely calculated disturbances around the sound. For us, it won’t change much, the sound will remain the same. But this will completely scare the AI ​​into making a different sound. It’s a program called “AntiFake”, which was developed by researchers at the University of Washington in the United States of America.

Here is an example in English:

Then the same sound but after applying AntiFake:

The little crackle we hear is the antidote, the vaccine added through the filter. There we exaggerated the noise. But in reality, it’s much more secretive.

Finally when we try to clone that voice and make it say something else:

The voice is unrecognizable, robotic and doesn’t sound at all like the first one.

this program Mounted on your phone, on your webcam, or directly on the microphone output. It’s a research tool, it’s free and anyone can integrate it into their products. So, ultimately, when a video is published on the Internet or when we present a radio show, we can automatically apply this filter and ensure that the sounds cannot be cloned.

Tools to prevent face copying

For photos, we already had the show. Tools that work on the same principle : They adjust the image in strategic places to disrupt the algorithms without changing the quality. This is a technology that some sites that publish artists’ works have begun to offer. This prevents them from being looted and used to train the AI. From now on, we will have the same for sound.