China's ByteDance has created a new way for people to immediately change their voice into another person's using generative artificial intelligence technology. People have already this year used AI to impersonate President Joe Biden as the 2024 election nears and pop star Taylor Swift . The output occurs at the speed of livestreaming, with just 124 milliseconds of latency, according to the paper, which noted that AI voice conversion technology thus far has mostly only been effective "offline." It also used open-source code from Meta's Audiodec , which Meta describes as a "plug-and-play benchmark for audio codec applications." They suggested people report illegal usage of voice conversion to the appropriate authorities.

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Persons: China's ByteDance, Joe Biden, Taylor Swift, StreamVoice, Meta, Biden, Kali Hays Organizations: Business, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Northwestern University Locations: China, New Hampshire, khays@insider.com