AI-generated sound effects are now fooling human ears

If you'll permit us to spoil a little bit of movie magic, many of the sound effects you hear in film and TV are actually recreated and edited in later by Foley artists. Now, researchers are attempting to create sound effect-generating artificial intelligence to see if they can do their jobs well enough to fool the general population. In a recent study, a small cohort of participants fell for the trick: Most they believed that the AI-generated noises were real, IEEE Spectrum reports. Sometimes, they even chose the AI version over a video's original audio. In the study, which was published in June in the paper IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 41 of the 53 participants were fooled by the AI-generated sounds.