Although it’s generally accepted that synthesized voices which mimic real people’s voices (so-called ‘deepfakes’) can be pretty convincing, what does our brain really think …
what does our brain really think of these mimicry attempts?
There’s something stupid-sounding about this sentence, though I can’t quite pinpoint it.
Also, I wonder how they controlled for confounding factors. The research indicates that our brains react differently to “fake voices.” How does it react to real voices played with low quality audio (e.g. through a telephone, or AM radio)? What about natural voices that are “ugly” or odd sounding? Speech impediments? Voices in a big hall with lots of reverberation? What about fake voices in an environment with a lot of background noise?
No, I think it’s the fact that we think with our brains. The brain in a person is not some separate entity. It practically is us. So if someone says “my brain thinks it’s getting late” sounds stupid. “I think it’s getting late” sounds fine.
I don’t think brains are capable of thinking something about something. Brains are used to think something about something. I don’t know, sounds stupid to me too.
I think of it like a plane. There’s a computer or a person flying the plane, the plane doesn’t fly itself.
Probably would have sounded less stupid, if it said something like „What happens really in our brains, if we think about/hear these mimicry attempts?“
When something happens and we perceive it, we think of the situation. Yes, yes, technically it’s the brain doing the thinking, but our brain is us, not something separate.
So a better phrase would be the one you mentioned. “When we notice this mimicry, our brains activate such and such regions.”
There’s something stupid-sounding about this sentence, though I can’t quite pinpoint it.
Also, I wonder how they controlled for confounding factors. The research indicates that our brains react differently to “fake voices.” How does it react to real voices played with low quality audio (e.g. through a telephone, or AM radio)? What about natural voices that are “ugly” or odd sounding? Speech impediments? Voices in a big hall with lots of reverberation? What about fake voices in an environment with a lot of background noise?
If they controlled for all that, then cool.
I think it’s “our brain”, as if we all share one brain. “What do our brains really think of these mimicry attempts” works better to me
No, I think it’s the fact that we think with our brains. The brain in a person is not some separate entity. It practically is us. So if someone says “my brain thinks it’s getting late” sounds stupid. “I think it’s getting late” sounds fine.
You must be picking up on the deepfake AI generated sentence
I don’t think brains are capable of thinking something about something. Brains are used to think something about something. I don’t know, sounds stupid to me too. I think of it like a plane. There’s a computer or a person flying the plane, the plane doesn’t fly itself. Probably would have sounded less stupid, if it said something like „What happens really in our brains, if we think about/hear these mimicry attempts?“
You are on point with your last sentence.
When something happens and we perceive it, we think of the situation. Yes, yes, technically it’s the brain doing the thinking, but our brain is us, not something separate.
So a better phrase would be the one you mentioned. “When we notice this mimicry, our brains activate such and such regions.”