🗣️ Sesame Drops Its AI Voice Model – Because Talking to Robots is the Future! 🤖🎙️

AI startup Sesame just open-sourced the voice model behind Maya, the creepily realistic virtual assistant that recently went viral. 🚀

Their model, CSM-1B, is now available under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning you can use it however you like—even for commercial projects. 💰

But wait… voice cloning in under a minute? What could possibly go wrong? 😬

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🎤 What’s So Special About CSM-1B?

✔️ 1 billion parameters – Because bigger is (usually) better! 🤓
✔️ Uses Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) for high-quality audio 🔊
✔️ Based on Meta’s Llama AI 🦙 + an audio decoder 🎛️
✔️ Can generate many different voices… just not perfectly yet! 🎙️

Sesame warns: “This model isn’t fine-tuned for specific voices.”
Translation: It can’t perfectly mimic your favorite celeb… yet. 👀🎭

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🕵️‍♂️ The Tiny Ethical Problem…

Here’s the catch: CSM-1B has no built-in safeguards.
🤔 No restrictions.
🤔 No safety rails.
🤔 Just a friendly “please don’t use this for evil” reminder from Sesame.

What could go wrong? 🤡

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🏴‍☠️ Cloning Voices in a Minute?!

I tested it on Hugging Face, and within one minute, I cloned my own voice. 🎙️😱
From there, I could make it say anything—even controversial topics like elections and, well… Russian propaganda. 🏴

Consumer Reports already warned that many AI voice cloning tools lack meaningful safeguards. But at least this one kindly asks you to behave. 😅

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🔥 The Company Behind the Madness

Sesame was co-founded by Oculus co-creator Brendan Iribe (because, of course, VR people would make this). 🎮🧠
The company has big investors like:
💰 Andreessen Horowitz
💰 Spark Capital
💰 Matrix Partners

And beyond voice AI, Sesame is also making AI glasses that they claim can be worn all day. Because why stop at creepy voices when you can have creepy AR too? 👓🤖

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🚀 Final Thoughts – Cool or Creepy?

AI voice tech is advancing at lightning speed. 🚀
But when it’s this easy to clone voices and spread misinformation, should we be concerned? 🤨

Sesame says “trust us.” But do we? 🤔

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