“Interesting and thought provoking in its exploration of the current usage and future of AI voice cloning tech. Hard to recommend, however, as the host inadvertently reveals a lot about his own psychology and his relationships that I found very uncomfortable to listen to. Throughout the series, he calls people, customer service reps, a therapist, friends and family, using the voice clone. It feels quite cruel most of the time, though it’s not until the very end that he starts to grapple with what he has been doing to others but even then, he can’t seem to fully see how sadistic he’s being, too caught up in his curiosity in his experiment or his ambitions in this project or shrugging it off as a kind of prank. I’m a psychologist myself and I just kept thinking he should take the therapist he spoke with up on her offer for more therapy! His voice clone nails a description of him… keeping others at a distance to avoid vulnerability. That coolness and intellectualization in place of real human connection comes through loud and clear, so that the ending, that attempts a poignant contextualization, falls flat.”
NYC psychologist via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/07/24