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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Apr 20, 2023 12:48AM

Steve,

Yes fully agree. It is scary technology when this technology impacts people professional careers. For example: Google and Apple creating AI audio narrators to the level you do not know it is AI. There is a lot of people who do this for a profession which will no longer have a job. Yes, it will make more books in audio books format. This is not resolving the literacy issue, just making it worse from my point of view. Those people who have a print disability is excluded from that statement.
This type of AI creative technology impacts Artists, authors and the like. AI music is a thing now, how is that going to impact the music industry? A guy in the UK one a photography award and when he excepted the award, he declined the money because he used AI to prove a point.

In Australia a person nearly got hit by a scammer for a million dollars. The person was convinced the person they were talking to was their daughter. The voice of the scammer was fully AI created. Luckily the person rang their partner and discovered the daughter was at home. Like any technology, the good and the ugly is based upon how people apply the technology. AI Ethics is a thing and was gaining ground until this year where Apple and Google laid off a bunch of those folks. Not sure who else has done that.


Regards
Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy | Senior Digital System specialist (Accessibility)
Telstra Digital Channels | Digital Systems
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