Episode 80 - With host Craig Norris and Taylor Lidstone.
First Broadcast on Edge Radio, 5th July 2024.
In this episode, we dive into the latest trend of AI-generated voices, including Judy Garland and James Dean. Morgan Freeman’s reaction to the unauthorized use of AI to imitate his voice, and we also cover Instagram’s decision to change its ‘Made with AI’ label to ‘AI info’ following photographers’ complaints. We talk about a British man who was sentenced to four months in jail for carrying a Legend of Zelda sword in public as a fidget toy. We also explore the naming of a newly discovered eyeless spider after a creature from Monster Hunter. Finally, we highlight the rising popularity of K-pop group Seventeen, who are making history in the UK and rivaling Taylor Swift. Tune in for these stories and more!
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Links
You can now get AI Judy Garland or James Dean to read you the news (engadget.com)
Morgan Freeman Thanks Fans for Highlighting 'Unauthorized' Use of AI to Imitate His Voice - IGN
Scientists Name Newly Discovered Eyeless Spider After Blind Flying Wyvern From Monster Hunter ign.com/articles/scientists-name-newly-discovered-eyeless-spider-after-blind-flying-wyvern-from-monster-hunter
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Yes, indeed. Welcome officially to media mothership broadcasting out of Edge Radio Studios in Apollonia, Hobart. TAS on media. Must we explore how media can shape our understanding of the world around us? I'm your host, Doctor Craig, and we're streaming over. A couple of platforms including EDS radio.org Dot AU as well as YouTube and Twitch. If you want to jump on those streaming platforms, you can find us by just searching media mothership as well as on the DAB. You can message us on the chat at YouTube and Twitch or SMS SMS US directly into the studio on 0488811707. Today's topic is looking at some interesting aspects. Of AI and some. You know, fun ways in which pop culture has LED people to be arrested as well as giving them good ideas for names of things. Would you believe all this and more on media mothership? OK, let's have a look at this first unusual article headlined. You can now get AI, Judy Garland or James Dean to read you the news. This is a piece from Engadget talking about how a company called 11 Labs has made a deal with the estates of famous deceased for their new. Reader app. So the article goes on to talk about how this startup. Has created this app which will narrate. Ebooks and PDFs for you in the voice of a dead celebrity in this at this point they've been able to get a couple of states signed up to it. So it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Judy Garland. Being one of them, let's listen to how they try to explain this, and then we'll look at some of the implications that this might lead to.
So download the 11 labs reader app today. Your favourite stories with your favourite iconic voices.
People using pop culture in a way which makes people in the public feel afraid. Here's an example of people using pop culture, which hopefully maybe helps people understand something better. This is from ign.com. It's a story talking headlined scientists name, newly discovered eyeless spider. After blind flying, Wyvern from Monster Hunter, this is from the video game series Monster Hunter. Turns out that a newly discovered spider from China has been named the. Otto acilia. Kesu after Kesu the flying wavering from the video game Monster Hunter. Spiders and wyverns don't really have anything in common, but it is intriguing that this popular culture video game series was choose chosen to to name this newly discovered spider. And yeah. I guess Kesu, which looks fairly normal, wavering from the 2000. Or Monster Hunter series has maybe some scary links to the spider that's there. It's worth looking at the the whole image. There are plenty of other examples of scientists doing the same the. Sarona Butterfly was named after the Lord of the Rings. Villain Soron I see soron. Ah, the Vada neito it. Soron soron. Ah, butterfly venomous. Tom Hardy was somewhat bizarrely named after Tom Hardy's Venom. Films. And the touchy men, Otis Harrison Fordy snake was of course named after the Indiana Jones actor. It's intriguing. Again, this idea of how media influence is occurring here in terms of naming new species after pop culture references could reflect the influence of media on scientific practises. I wonder how many? People that are doing scientific practises are huge fans or nerds, or geeks of particular pop culture and are more than happy to dig into that well of their pop culture knowledge to help them name the real world around us. Interesting that of course the choice of names. Like the venomous Tom Hardy for that snake suggests about. The cultural significance. Of video games and movies and contemporary societies. Yeah, because I guess if you think about the naming of dinosaurs back in the. Late 1900s, it was, you know, you kind of Greek words, Tyrannosaurus Rex, so forth. This idea of classics to give that sense of wonder and awe to these huge fossilised dinosaur remains. Does it diminish it somewhat that we're choosing pop culture names and actor names for discoveries that we're making? Or does it make it more relatable? Does it give them a kind of interest? And media cut through, they wouldn't otherwise have. I mean, would IGN be reporting on another classic Greek term used to name this spider? I don't think so, right? I mean, the reason that maybe they chose this Monster Hunter name was to get a bit of media coverage. Science communication, right? So how might people use popular culture references in science to impact this public engagement with science? Right. I mean. Maybe to bring more dramatic. Issues facing us that science needs to communicate with climate change and so forth. Could we use some scientific nomenclature that uses pop culture terms? And yeah, could there be a bit of a cross disciplinary impact? You know how these naming conventions illustrate this maybe wonderful intersection of science. And media studies or fan culture, or Hollywood into science. It's intriguing. The interplay between science media.
Doesn't seem enough yet. Yeah. So again, it's one of these false positives.
Message. Ohh. Great. We'll have a message come through.
Fan. Hey. Yeah, really. OK, we.
Yeah. So so it's so it's like a little little openness sort of thing.
Yeah, well. Mean. Well, look, I mean, there's plenty of kind of devices for fidgets. So I mean.
Hmm. How many times have you been turned away at the door?
Well, maybe these are the good ones, right? Like he was hoarding them.
OK. Well then I can. I can understand why.
Named 17. What's that? Oh, my God.
Assumption. Well, if you've got flipping in One Direction, you can have seven days.
Have they been? Heard of do you think a Western? Or a WA board.
Public Western public would have.
I I can think of probably four or five. My my acts that are more well.
Known than them, Sai. Yeah, Sai and Sai and Sai.
Right now I don't know. I don't.
You're not tapped into right now.
Not tapped in. I just listened to my sorry.
Probably knowing capable, it would be fun. My life or something. Like that, yeah.
Yeah. First became popular in 1990s with its US influenced acts like Co Taji and the boys.
And. Worse, so Taiji and boys.
Even worse. They got Psy with Gangnam Style, of course, which?
So they came together in 2012. Were you aware of that 20? 12.
Like you've been things. OK. But but been around?
Korean talent agency record label Pledis Yeah. Are they?
Good. They're an entertainment company.
Was this like a recruitment 1 where people dropped out and they were voting?
The first five track EP17. Right. Is that good? So 17 karat.
All three, if you're lucky, and then going up to this one.
Many of these groups, like 17, have subunits.
Yeah, that's what I was talking about. They've got they've got their.
Well, I'm. I'm thinking of I as one and and the the live show that I watched of theirs and.
No. Just the vocals would come on and do their vocals song.
And they would have a spotlight on them.
Million units. What are photo cards? So this is.
Band. So yeah, if they don't get their favourite one, they'll actually buy five more. Rooms.
So there's a. Huge like. And then they'd sell it on. EBay or something?
Well, well, would you, would you be able to? Give a rough estimate.
I don't know what an average fan. Would.
Bias is your favourite. Yeah, and you have ultra bias and you have bias wrecker.
Through these times, so ultra bias is.
It's not like super blast. I can't remember. Central bias is like your number one out of all.
Right, right. It's like you. Yeah, the 13.
Out of everything. Ohh, right, right. Your voice. OK? Yeah. So.
Like sigh. Sigh, I have ultraviolence for maybe.
I listened to hitchhiker and it was a balance wrecker. Moment. Wow. I mean, the lingo.
I was once to get a lenticular photo card that I.
Wanted. Wow. What made it so important?
It was just an album that I really liked and I wanted to have my bio.
No, no, it was twice as album fancy, yeah.
Names. Yeah. Nomes. So, yeah, you got 2.
Umm, popcorn. Well, that that's like the bluey coin sets that came out recently.
Get those from the the like the mint of Australia. Ohh yeah, Sydney Mint or whatever it is and.
Ohh right, so that popularity.
Ultra biases. What was this? What was this about? This. This.
Honestly, this is just an info piece for people that want to figure out.
What K pop is but how? How are they making history in the UK? How how is 17?
What metric male male male type of acts?
No, I guess it's did she did? Taylor Swift performing Gamble, Glastonbury she.
Taylor Swift doesn't even Char. No, that could be, yeah.
Well, they can't. It doesn't work.
Sorry, I actually had the the image over your head anyway.
Yeah, it in a in a while. I mean, I haven't got my songs ready for today.
Whenever I can play some music.
And I won't be back for three weeks.
Yeah. Yeah, that's right. You're yeah.
You're doing your community theatre. Yeah, yeah. That'd be great. Agatha Christie.
Agatha Christie, 10 to 20 July at the Playhouse.
You're on my stream. Saying this, you're gonna have a. Huge audience, yeah.
So you where can you go to find out more about the unexpected guest?
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