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20222026
most citedNot My Voice! A Taxonomy of Ethical and Safety Harms of Speech Generators

47 citations · 57 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

Evaluating Intellectual Property Guardrails of Generative Image Models: A Technical Report

Austin T. Hoag, Apostolos Modas, Yunhao Ba +9

Generative image models are capable of producing images that bear a strong resemblance to, or replicate, recognizable intellectual property (IP). In this technical report, we prese…

cs.CY2026

Yes, But Not Always. Generative AI Needs Nuanced Opt-in

Wiebke Hutiri, Morgan Scheuerman, Shruti Nagpal +2

This paper argues that a one-size-fits-all approach to specifying consent for the use of creative works in generative AI is insufficient. Real-world ownership and rights holder str…

cs.SD2025

Attribution-by-design: Ensuring Inference-Time Provenance in Generative Music Systems

Fabio Morreale, Wiebke Hutiri, Joan Serrà +2

The rise of AI-generated music is diluting royalty pools and revealing structural flaws in existing remuneration frameworks, challenging the well-established artist compensation sy…

cs.CL2025

How to Evaluate Automatic Speech Recognition: Comparing Different Performance and Bias Measures

Tanvina Patel, Wiebke Hutiri, Aaron Yi Ding +1

There is increasingly more evidence that automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are biased against different speakers and speaker groups, e.g., due to gender, age, or accent. R…

cs.CY2025

TEDI: Trustworthy and Ethical Dataset Indicators to Analyze and Compare Dataset Documentation

Wiebke Hutiri, Mircea Cimpoi, Morgan Scheuerman +2

Dataset transparency is a key enabler of responsible AI, but insights into multimodal dataset attributes that impact trustworthy and ethical aspects of AI applications remain scarc…

cs.CY2025★ 4 cited

AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons

Shaona Ghosh, Heather Frase, Adina Williams +99

The rapid advancement and deployment of AI systems have created an urgent need for standard safety-evaluation frameworks. This paper introduces AILuminate v1.0, the first comprehen…

eess.AS2024

As Biased as You Measure: Methodological Pitfalls of Bias Evaluations in Speaker Verification Research

Wiebke Hutiri, Tanvina Patel, Aaron Yi Ding +1

Detecting and mitigating bias in speaker verification systems is important, as datasets, processing choices and algorithms can lead to performance differences that systematically f…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Introducing v0.5 of the AI Safety Benchmark from MLCommons

Bertie Vidgen, Adarsh Agrawal, Ahmed M. Ahmed +97

This paper introduces v0.5 of the AI Safety Benchmark, which has been created by the MLCommons AI Safety Working Group. The AI Safety Benchmark has been designed to assess the safe…

cs.CL2024★ 47 cited

Not My Voice! A Taxonomy of Ethical and Safety Harms of Speech Generators

Wiebke Hutiri, Oresiti Papakyriakopoulos, Alice Xiang

The rapid and wide-scale adoption of AI to generate human speech poses a range of significant ethical and safety risks to society that need to be addressed. For example, a growing…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

Benchmark Dataset Dynamics, Bias and Privacy Challenges in Voice Biometrics Research

Casandra Rusti, Anna Leschanowsky, Carolyn Quinlan +3

Speaker recognition is a widely used voice-based biometric technology with applications in various industries, including banking, education, recruitment, immigration, law enforceme…

eess.AS2022

Towards Trustworthy Edge Intelligence: Insights from Voice-Activated Services

W. T. Hutiri, A. Y. Ding

In an age of surveillance capitalism, anchoring the design of emerging smart services in trustworthiness is urgent and important. Edge Intelligence, which brings together the field…

eess.AS2022

Design Guidelines for Inclusive Speaker Verification Evaluation Datasets

Wiebke Toussaint Hutiri, Lauriane Gorce, Aaron Yi Ding

Speaker verification (SV) provides billions of voice-enabled devices with access control, and ensures the security of voice-driven technologies. As a type of biometrics, it is nece…

cs.LG2022

Tiny, always-on and fragile: Bias propagation through design choices in on-device machine learning workflows

Wiebke Toussaint, Aaron Yi Ding, Fahim Kawsar +1

Billions of distributed, heterogeneous and resource constrained IoT devices deploy on-device machine learning (ML) for private, fast and offline inference on personal data. On-devi…