Zoom Custom AI Avatars Can Now Deliver Messages To Your Team As You — Skipping Boring Remote Meetings Finally A Reality?
Zoom Custom AI Avatars Can Now Deliver Messages To Your Team As You — Skipping Boring Remote Meetings Finally A Reality?
Following these steps, users can type the message they'd like their AI avatar to deliver, and it will handle the speaking on the person's behalf.Zoom Video Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:ZM) is gearing up to launch AI avatars that can communicate on behalf of users by posing as them.
Zoom視頻通訊公司（納斯達克：ZM）正準備推出能夠代表用戶進行通信的人工智能頭像，以僞裝爲他們。
What Happened: Zoom is developing a feature that will allow users to create AI avatars of themselves to send brief messages to their teams.
事件經過：Zoom正在開發一項功能，允許用戶創建他們自己的人工智能頭像，以便向他們的團隊發送簡短的消息。
To generate a digital avatar, users will need to record a video of themselves, which Zoom's AI will analyze to create an avatar that mirrors their appearance and voice.
爲了生成數字頭像，用戶需要錄製一段自己的視頻，Zoom的人工智能將對其進行分析，以創建一個鏡像其外貌和聲音的頭像。
Following these steps, users can type the message they'd like their AI avatar to deliver, and it will handle the speaking on the person's behalf.
在完成這些步驟後，用戶可以鍵入他們希望其人工智能頭像傳達的消息，它將代表這個人進行發言。
This feature will be integrated with Zoom's Clips feature, enabling users to record short video updates for their colleagues.
這一功能將與Zoom的Clips功能整合，使用戶能夠爲他們的同事錄製簡短的視頻更新。
"The custom AI Companion add-on will be $12 per user per month and is planned to be available for purchase in the first half of 2025, with select capabilities available in preview in the coming months," the company stated.
「定製的AI伴侶附加功能將每月收費12美元，並計劃於2025年上半年開始提供購買，部分功能將在未來幾個月的預覽中推出，」公司表示。
However, paid Zoom subscribers without the add-on can still create clips using preset AI avatars and voices.
不過，沒有這一附加功能的付費Zoom訂閱用戶仍然可以使用預設的人工智能頭像和聲音來創建剪輯。
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Why It Matters: While Zoom is addressing potential deepfake issues by implementing advanced authentication, watermarking technology, and strict usage policies, the introduction of AI avatars could come with potential risks.
重要性: 雖然 Zoom 正在通過實施先進的身份驗證、水印技術和嚴格的使用政策來解決潛在的深度僞造問題，但引入 AI 頭像可能帶來潛在風險。
Several companies have created AI technology to digitally "clone" a person's face and match it with fairly natural-sounding synthetic speech.
一些公司已經開發出人工智能技術，可以數字"克隆"一個人的臉，並將其與相當自然的合成語音相匹配。
Generative AI startup Tavus, for example, enables brands to craft virtual personas for personalized video advertisements, reported TechCrunch.
例如，生成式人工智能初創公司 Tavus 使品牌能夠爲個性化視頻廣告打造虛擬人物，據 TechCrunch 報道。
Last year, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) also introduced a service that generates realistic digital replicas of individuals. However, many of these tools come with strict safeguards to prevent misuse.
去年，微軟公司（納斯達克:MSFT）也推出了一項可生成逼真數字人物副本的服務。然而，許多這些工具都配備了嚴格的保護措施以防止濫用。
Tavus requires verbal consent from individuals, and Microsoft insists that customers obtain written permission and consent from anyone whose likeness is being used for avatars, the report noted.
Tavus 要求個人口頭同意，而微軟堅持要求客戶獲得任何被用於頭像的人的書面許可和同意，報告指出。
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