ScarJo being what takes down Saltman's wannabe Sky~~net~~ isn't what I have on my bingo card, but ~~would be~~ is insanely funny.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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When OpenAI issued a casting call last year for a secret project to endow OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT with a human voice, the flier had several requests: The actors should be nonunion. They should sound between 25 and 45 years old. And their voices should be “warm, engaging [and] charismatic.”
One thing the artificial intelligence company didn’t request, according to interviews with multiple people involved in the process and documents shared by OpenAI in response to questions from The Washington Post: a clone of actress Scarlett Johansson
gotta love the lucy-football here. "no no, we never requested that it sound like her!"
sure leaves out whether it was chosen to be that. of all the voice actors out there, they just happened to stumble over and choose the exact one that had a voice like scarjo? happens to everyone, all the time. just like forgetting your keys as you walk out the front door. perfectly normal. pay no attention to the other attempts to get legal cover on delivery day...
Yeah, I'm not going to believe anything out of OpenAI that isn't produced as part of discovery.
Altman is the P.T. Barnum of tech
Love it, so many great quotes in this piece but this is my favourite.
AI stans? In my ~~sneer club~~ tech takes?
given how fucking embarrassing this has been for OpenAI, I’m expecting a lot of variants of the current “uhh I listened to the voice and it didn’t sound like her to me” shit take from the peanut gallery, which really falls apart given there’s enough of a resemblance that OpenAI had to take down the voice and refuses to give a straight answer on the sources used to create it
also both altman and a fuckton of breathless journalists compared the fucking thing with one of Johansson’s performances? like I said, fucking embarrassing shit for OpenAI
which really falls apart given there’s enough of a resemblance that OpenAI had to take down the voice
you know, I want the peanut brigade to come in with waves of "I listened to it but it didn't sound that similar to me!", if only just because it'll serve as demonstration of mispurposed belief
kinda shitty that scarjo is only at letters-and-statements, but then again US law is a fucking disasterzone and fuck knows what'd needed to Actually Prove(tm)(r)<<US Court Flavour - Special Edition>> the extremely obvious fact that openai did a bit of thieving
Eagerly awaiting the lawsuit and discovery where it'll turn out the datasets for Sky were completely accidentally called scajo_01.dat through scajo_42.dat.
Hey, I'm gonna be THAT guy:
This begs the question: If the voice behind Sky belongs....
No, it doesn't. It raises (prompts) the question.
I feel much better, thanks.
Hi, I'm going to be that OTHER guy:
Thank god not all dictionaries are prescriptivists and simply reflect the natural usage: Cambridge dictionary: Beg the question
On a side rant "begging the question" is a terrible name for this bias, and the very wikipedia page you've been so kind to offer provides the much more transparent "assuming the conclusion".
If you absolutely wanted to translate from the original latin/greek (petitio principii/τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι): "beginning with an ask", where ask = assumption of the premise. [Which happens to also be more transparent]
Just because we've inherited terrible translations does not mean we should seek to perpetuate them though sheer cultural inertia, and much less chastise others when using the much more natural meaning of the words "beg the question". [I have to wonder if begging here is somehow a corruption of "begin" but I can't find sources to back this up, and don't want to waste too much time looking]
I feel mildly better, thanks.
This is just insanity, the voice named Sky didn't sound like Scarlet Johannson, even going as far as to remove it due to backlash is nuts. I adore Scarlet Johannson's voice, and not once in the demo videos of ChatGPT-4o did I think it sounds like Scarlet, not a single time.
It sucks that all this backlash is against arguably the best voice they have at their disposal. Now we'll all be stuck with Juniper, which is just.... ok.
Did you just editorialize an editorial? There is grass outside, and it yearns to be touched.
"wah wah talk more like a stupid robot please" fuck off