Vajra Chandrasekera (@varja.me on bluesky): AI is an attempt to hobble, if not outright destroy, the liberatory possibilities of information technologies—the ability to use voice, image, video, and text as authentic witness and testimony, in a globally accessible human archive that transcends distance and time, to easily contradict power. (quoted) @hypervisible.blacksky.app “As it stands, if people don’t like what they hear, they can simply turn something off; the system outlined by Microsoft describes an environment where people can instead adjust someone else’s speech to their personal taste.” (quoting) futurism.com Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People's Mouths in Real Time Microsoft just filed a patent for an AI product that would be able to transform live video in real time to alter speakers' words and faces.