Fake Joe Rogan Interviews Fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered Podcast

A voice synthesis company based in Dubai has published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned from both men. It takes place during the "first episode" of a purported podcast series called "Podcast.ai," created by Play.ht, which sells voice synthesis services.

Further reading: ArsTechnica.

Awesome

[divide overflow]

And I will pretend to have listened to that fake interview, completing the circle of artificial.

Staccato

[locater16]

Still has that "AI staccato" all over the place. This really needs to be fixed before any of this sounds real.

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[saloomy]

It does keep it fake. But man, listening to it for a moment, I realized I miss Stevenotes. His presentation style was amazing and seemed genuine. Apple presentations have become too manufactured and have too many whiz-bang videos, rather than the explanations and elaborative feel of Steve's keynotes, they became awkward with the tech bros hooting and cheering for every stupid thing, and then after Covid, they just became insane fly-thus of their campus. Sucks these days.

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[orudus]

I really miss his style of delivering a narrative. He was a very convincing person, whether he was talking about the phone you should own, or the way public schools should be funded. It wasn't so much whether I agreed with him, it was that he came to the conversation well educated about the underlying issues. He made you think about why he came to his conclusion about something, then think more about your own conclusions. There are not a lot of leaders around that can do that.

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[Askmum]

Please no. I don't want fake audio going round as being real. Just like deepfakes in imagery this is a very very bad and potentially dangerous development.

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[DamnOregonian]

Like the realization that the strong nuclear force could be used in place of the electromagnetic force for explosive fuel, this genie isn't going back in that bottle.

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[bill_mcgonigle]

For me the nonsense script and mispronunciations were worse. Inappropriate laughter, phrases without antecedent. The ums were cool though.

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[leonbev]

The Steve Jobs AI doesn't seem to be all that knowledgeable about the real Steve Jobs, either. When fake Joe Rogan asked him about the Newton, fake Jobs went on some unrelated diatribe about the Apple II and Google. What AI Jobs should have said is that he had nothing to do with that product, and killed it as soon as he got back to Apple.

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[bev_tech_rob]

Still has that "AI staccato" all over the place. This really needs to be fixed before any of this sounds real.

I haven't heard Steve Jobs' voice much, but that was spot-on Joe Rogan to me. He normally talks with that staccato... ;)

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[labradore]

The most obvious fakery for both of them was the script. While lots of their individual phrases sounded spot-on, the interplay was all wrong and the content was not realistic. The emphasis on individual words was not great. There was also a crispness problem. The beginning and end of many words sounded ... too crispy.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[The Evil Atheist]

One is a genius.

The other's insane.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Referring to what? Rogan and Jobs?

Both were/are insane, from what I can tell. Both had/have a religious cult like following. But while Jobs insanity in alternative medicine probably cut his life short, Jobs managed to channel that insanity into useful results in consumer electronics. Jobs kept that alternative medicine insanity mostly to himself instead of telling millions of other people that took every one of his words as gospel to eat horse dewormer.

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[bussdriver]

Nobody survives what Jobs had; it's amazing he lived as long as he did, it was borrowed time no matter what he did.

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[bussdriver]

His goofy eating wasn't the cause of his death; it was the major pancreas problem.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly; he lucked out. Sure his diet was goofy sounding but I read those people don't live long anyway -- I don't know his specifics so I can't say if his odd eating was damaging considering he was likely to die soon anyhow. Smoking might have done something for him too and sure that would eventually kill him if he lived long enough. If he likes to die eating Apples...so be it. I'd rather die eating

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[The Evil Atheist]

No, they caught the cancer early. Jobs could have been saved if he had surgery right away. But he opted for his fad diet instead.

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[bussdriver]

He already had a transplant. You are saying he needed another surgery again that might have worked?

He was lucky and he also hacked the system's corruption protections. He shopped around the nation and got himself on every waiting list for a transplant because he's a billionaire. So he essentially was bumped up the list despite all sorts of measures taken to make those lists fair and not like we just sell organs to the rich but that is functionally close to what he did. That is why I remember reading it.

I w

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[The Evil Atheist]

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/... [go.com] He waited 6 years to get a transplant, by which time he was too far gone.

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[The Evil Atheist]

Referring to what?

Pinky and the Brain.

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[DesScorp]

One is a genius.

The other's insane.

Yes, Steve was insane. But he got people to make nice gear.

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[The Evil Atheist]

I object to implying that Joe Rogan is a genius.

Objective Reality...it's been good to knowya

[Miles_O'Toole]

This is another step down the road to a world where it is impossible for anybody who wasn't actually present at an event to know whether it happened or not.

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[drinkypoo]

In short, yes.

Maybe this is what a blockchain is good for, associate it with a video stream and it shows what was edited by who and when.

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[Miles_O'Toole]

That is an excellent idea!

Just another day on the internet

[ClueHammer]

Where everything is fake

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[DesScorp]

Where everything is fake

Since we're told that we may all be "living" in a Matrix-like software simulation, is an AI-generated podcast really fake?

Joe Rogain. YouTube's Darling

[John Smith 2294]

The rest of the world hates his guts and thinks he is an idiot. Including YouTube viewers. It is only YouTube management that is in love with Joe.

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[John Smith 2294]

I have never listened to a single word he has said. I know he is an idiot by how hard YouTube pushes him. I will never watch.

YouTube has several darlings like this that they push on everyone: Casey Neistat, MrBeast, Rick Beato, Bald and Bankrupt, and Joe Rogain. You can't escape them, they appear on every page (not logged in and on clear cookies). I know they are all idiots. Why? Because YouTube pushes them so hard. Good entertainers and pundits do not need a platform to force them on every viewer.

I feel th

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[ichthus]

The rest of the world hates his guts and thinks he is an idiot.

Because he interviews people you don't like. Also *gasp* "HORSE DEWORMERRR!"

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[John Smith 2294]

Nope, I do not care who he interviews. I just don't care about Joe Rogain at all, but YouTube wants me to look at his ugly face so badly, I simply refuse, and seeing it everywhere annoys me. Over saturation advertising - it never works.

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[ichthus]

Yeah, so, I fail to see how you get from "I just don't care about Joe Rogain at all", to your original statement: The rest of the world hates his guts and thinks he is an idiot.

In the first case, it's your genuinely entitled opinion. In your previous generalization, you seem to think you're speaking for the internet at large. Joe's success -- his listener base, his Spotify contract, his popularity and, certainly, the hatred he has amassed from the free speech-hating leftists definitely refutes your asse

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[John Smith 2294]

He is nothing more than just plain annoying to me. But I feel the same about the others I mentioned Like MrBeast. I have no idea what either of their politics are and just do not care. YouTube bombards me with them constantly and I refuse to watch them for that reason alone. And for the same reason I hate both their guts. I do nt know why YouTube wants me to watch them both so badly, but I will not, so they can fuck right off as far as I am concerned, just like any other advertiser.

How do you identify the fake?

[thegarbz]

I mean Steve Jobs should be easy to tell apart, but Joe Rogan is such a scattershot of any topical nonsense bullshit that you would be unable to tell apart fake Joe from anything else he vomits out into his podcasts to make money.

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[thegarbz]

Didn't say he isn't.

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[ichthus]

It's been fun to read the opinions of Joe's detractors, versus those who actually listen to his podcast. In the case of the haters, they provide nothing of substance for argument -- they simply call him stupid or insane. Oh, and transphobic and racist -- you know, the typical nonsensical jabs from pro-censors.

On the other hand, you have the people who actually pay attention and can form a cogent argument, like yourself.

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[thegarbz]

It's been fun to read the opinions of Joe's detractors, versus those who actually listen to his podcast.

It's equally fun thinking that there's only two groups of people in the world: those who have seen his podcast and thus like him, and those who don't and thus are "haters".

Nothing says "I'm a raging fanboi" more than applying this duality to anything. God forbid someone has watched (or in this case heard) his podcast and doesn't like him. No we don't exist.

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[thegarbz]

Lol it's so easy to spot the people who have never actually watched Joe Rogan.

I did. Spotify pushed this down on everyone. Did being past tense.

He's a good guy, a real Everyman who doesn't suffer bullshit.

Everyman is a good word. It's a euphemism for appealing to the lower classes. Those people who can't think for themselves. He doesn't suffer bullshit, he absorbs it and respreads it. Honestly I wonder if he believes what he says or just says it for the content.

But gosh, Rogan doesn't bend the knee to the US government and SJWs, so obviously he's bad!

LOL. If that is what you think the discussion is about then maybe you should... go to Spotify and judge for yourself. But before you do, make sure you're not one of those "everyman" peo

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[DNS-and-BIND]

You know, punching down on the little people is a low blow, even for you. But I guess this is the sort of sick shit we just have to expect from the Left these days. Remember back when you used to be pro working class?

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[thegarbz]

you seem to have this unbridled hatred of a man you could simply ignore and never know existed. why? is it because you are autistic?

No. It's because my Spotify subscription goes to this bullshitter. It's because I'd prefer my money to go to artists I actually want to listen to, but instead it goes to Joe Rogan. It's because I want to see great music in my suggested feed, but instead I see podcasts by Joe Rogan.

I want to ignore this man so bad. I really wish I could never know he existed. TELL ME HOW!

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[RobinH]

It would be interesting to know how much money is involved with these people. You can see the same thing with Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. In all cases if you go back and look at any original interviews or videos they're mostly coherent, thoughtful, moderate, and reasonable. Peterson, for instance, used to be a popular professor teaching myth and symbol in Toronto, and there are a bunch of videos of those lectures online and you can see he's passionate and engaged in a very academi

Nailed it.

[bussdriver]

Yes!
Audience Capture; although, Jorden Peterson may be able to find the relevant psychology on the topic... perhaps he can do a paper on himself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Fake? Redundant?

[bussdriver]

I am not sure either man was not in some major way a Fake when speaking in public; so wouldn't this fake version be kind of redundant? Or would a fake of a fake make it more authentic? ;-)

Remember, "Reality Distortion Field"? Rogan is certainly far worse, I'm not equivocating simply because I referred to both.

This again

[Malays2 bowman]

"Let's continue to develop and perfect deep fake technology. Consequences be damned. People be damned. Courts be damned because now anything electronic can no longer be admissible evidence thanks to us!"

 

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[John Smith 2294]

True, but we require standards of law enforcement before any court can be considered valid. Standards in law enforcement would go al long way to address issues such as the one you raise.

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[Visarga]

I bet many people had similar reactions to each step in human progress.

Chuck Norris leaves AI clones speechless

[thesjaakspoiler]

There can be only one and one only Chuck Norris in this universe.

block Joe Rogan content

[satsuke]

Therefore we should all just ignore / downvote any podcast with Joe Rogan in it.

Not only because it might be fake, it's also from Joe Rogan. Right up there with Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson