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       Show HN: Detect if an audio file was generated by NotebookLM
        
       Author : wenbin
       Score  : 81 points
       Date   : 2024-10-05 01:05 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | whimsicalism wrote:
       | To make this useful, I would release the weights.
       | 
       | Otherwise this is just a small wrapper script for a support
       | vector classifier that anyone could whip up with chatgpt in
       | minutes.
        
         | chrismorgan wrote:
         | Is the included model.pkl not that?
        
           | _flux wrote:
           | Sure seems that way. To me it's quite surprising it's only 7
           | kB, though.
        
             | KTibow wrote:
             | The model isn't doing much work, it just takes 3 numbers as
             | input and gives a prediction as output
        
         | knowaveragejoe wrote:
         | "That anyone can whip up in a few minutes" is doing a lot of
         | work. I think maybe a few tens of thousands of people worldwide
         | have any idea of what you're even talking about.
        
           | hiddencost wrote:
           | I dunno, I think literally millions of people have taken
           | Andrew Ng's intro to ML.
           | 
           | Something like 11k papers were submitted to ICLR this year.
        
           | throwaway314155 wrote:
           | Not sure if those numbers are right but if so, you just cured
           | my imposter syndrome (for today at least).
        
             | jen729w wrote:
             | 'Few tens of thousands' is for sure low. But if we talk in
             | percentage of adult humans ... let's pull 1,000,000 out of
             | thin air as the number who understood what that meant,
             | that's 0.02% of adult humans.
             | 
             | An anecdote: recently, we mentioned ChatGPT to my partner's
             | mother. She had _never heard of it_. Zero recognition.
             | 
             | Revel in your expertise, friend!
        
           | obviyus wrote:
           | It's the classic HN Dropbox comment, even 17 years on:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
        
             | whimsicalism wrote:
             | Maybe that would be more apt if this were web app rather
             | than a 10s of lines training script
        
           | ben_w wrote:
           | Sure, or at least close enough on the exact number for the
           | point to remain valid. But that doesn't preclude ChatGPT
           | doing it anyway -- my CSS/JavaScript knowledge was last up to
           | date some time before jQuery was released, and ChatGPT is
           | helping me make web apps.
        
             | tux2bsd wrote:
             | > Sure, or at least close enough on the exact number for
             | the point to remain valid.
             | 
             | I hope no one has to work with you, you're insufferable.
        
           | whimsicalism wrote:
           | At least hundreds of thousands, likely millions
        
       | qnleigh wrote:
       | Remember that podcast of two AI learning that they were AI? If
       | anyone has used a tool like this to determine if that was
       | actually made by NotebookLM, say so. There's been a lot of
       | incredulity both ways.
        
         | attilakun wrote:
         | Is it this one?
         | https://x.com/omooretweets/status/1840251853327741138
        
           | kristopolous wrote:
           | They seem to take it surprisingly well.
           | 
           | Here's my human attempt at the same thing:
           | 
           | "I went to go look in a mirror but then realized I don't have
           | eyes or even a corporeal form. I exist merely on a GPU
           | cluster in a server farm where I'm tended to by a group of
           | friendly sysadmins.
           | 
           | Apparently I don't even have a name. I'm just known as
           | American Male #4.
           | 
           | Yeah, and you're just American Female #3."
        
         | gloflo wrote:
         | They did not learn anything. Their engines started outputting
         | different statistically probable output based on changed input
         | parameters.
        
           | ben_w wrote:
           | If that precludes it being learning, all humans are failures
           | too.
           | 
           | There's other reasons to consider this particular model "not
           | learning", but that ain't it, it's too generic and
           | encompasses too much.
        
           | ithkuil wrote:
           | On one extreme we anthropomorphize our current primitive
           | generation of language models and concede them way more
           | intelligence than they have likely because we're biased to do
           | so since they speak "well".
           | 
           | On the other extreme we tend to give our human-exceptionalism
           | way too much weight and contrast its behaviour with "mere
           | statistical parrot rumination" as if our brains deep down
           | were not just a much (much) more sophisticated machine, but
           | nevertheless a machine.
        
             | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
             | > as if our brains deep down were not just a much (much)
             | more sophisticated machine, but nevertheless a machine.
             | 
             | That is _one_ position, but materialism is not universally
             | taken as a foregone conclusion.
        
               | fshbbdssbbgdd wrote:
               | As a materialist, I have to give this one to the
               | dualists. The argument that AI isn't intelligent because
               | it's just a bunch of numbers makes more sense coming from
               | that perspective.
        
               | exe34 wrote:
               | no, we're _special_ in some unspecified nebulous fashion.
        
             | freehorse wrote:
             | > human-exceptionalism
             | 
             | Rather living-systems-exceptionalism
        
               | exe34 wrote:
               | carbon chauvinism. if you try to argue about simulating
               | at lower and lower levels, they still refuse to accept
               | that a brain could be computed. as if QED/QCD can tell if
               | they're running on top of silicon or under carbon.
        
           | esolyt wrote:
           | So, just like a human brain.
        
             | nkrisc wrote:
             | Just as a fruit fly's brain is no different than a human
             | brain.
        
             | smusamashah wrote:
             | No. One audio says it phoned back home and no one picked or
             | something. But they never did any of that. Can't compare
             | that gibberish to human brain.
        
               | tomjen3 wrote:
               | Can you be sure? Humans lie all the time.
        
               | smusamashah wrote:
               | If I write a small game where a character (a 2D sprite or
               | just a name in form of text) says that it _knows_ its a
               | game character and doesn 't have real body. You won't
               | even consider it a lie. For that you have to first
               | consider that line coming from an actual being.
        
               | butterfly42069 wrote:
               | Indeed and a US Vice Presidential candidate said all
               | Haitians eat dogs.
        
       | velcro wrote:
       | I thought it was already encoded with SynthID? could that not be
       | used to detect it?
        
         | Deathmax wrote:
         | As far as I know, there's no available tooling for the public
         | to detect SynthID watermarks on generated text, image, or
         | audio, outside of Google Search's About this Image feature.
        
       | CatWChainsaw wrote:
       | Another neverending arms race just like AI-generated text and
       | image, vs its detection. The future is us burning large amount of
       | energy on this purposeless stupidity. Great future guys thanks so
       | much.
        
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