https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/
Andy Baio on the weird world of AI voice cloning.
There’s a Discord with 500,000 members cloning celebrity voices in order to make their own cover songs, using Google Colab and models distributed through Hugging Face.
Andy made his own: “What if every Weird Al song was the original, and every other artist was covering his songs instead?”
I particularly enjoyed Madonna’s cover of “Like A Surgeon”, Lady Gaga’s “Perform This Way” and Lorde’s “Foil”.
Simon Willison /
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