Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

Abstraction: GPT-4V plus ElevenLabs creates unauthorized celebrity voice clone

Key points:

• Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (GPT-4V) and ElevenLabs voice cloning to impersonate David Attenborough narrating his life via webcam
• A Python script called "narrator" captures a webcam frame every five seconds, sends it to GPT-4V via API with an Attenborough-style prompt, then pipes the text to ElevenLabs
• The X post garnered over 21,000 likes within a day; Holtz published the code on GitHub
• Both OpenAI and ElevenLabs API tokens are required, incurring real costs to run
• The demo is unauthorized — Attenborough did not consent to having his voice cloned

Connections: Openai · Elevenlabs · GPT-4 · Voice Cloning · Multimodal AI · AI Ethics

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/