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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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#203Only partially related: One thing I often wonder with generative tools, and even before that with the explosion of gobal artists' publishing online:
When is it infringing to make something that looks or sounds like somebody famous? I mean, there's only so many ways a human voice voice can sound or face can look. At what point are entire concepts locked down just because somebody famous exists or existed that pattern matches.
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#204> 4. Naughtiness > Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it ma…
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is so pointless and petty too. Like "hee hee our software is just like the movies". And continuing the trend of tech moguls watching bleak satire and thinking it's aspirational.
How do people watch 15 seconds of a demo like this - https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1790072174117613963 And not see how over the top it is... cmon.
If anyone thinks this demo is cool, I regret to inform you that your life is very, very sad.
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#206At this point it’s time to create lists of “ethical” AI services, ones that aren’t OpenAI nor other bad actors. I’m dropping my ChatGPT Plus today. Any suggestions on what to replace it with?
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#207Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline: - OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused. - Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) - Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarle…
This statement from scarlet really changed my perspective. I use and loved the Sky voice and I did feel it sounded a little like her, but moreover it was the best of their voice offerings. I was mad when they removed it. But now I’m mad it was ever there to begin with. This timeline makes it clear that this wasn’t a coincidence and maybe not even a hiring of an impressionist (which is where things get a little more w…
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#208Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline: - OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused. - Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) - Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarle…
- Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) New voice mode is a speech predicting transformer. "Voice Cloning" could be as simple as appending a sample of the voice to the context and instructing it to imitate it.
If they really did that then (A) it's not much better (B) they didn't even wait for an answer from Johansson (C) it's extraordinarily reckless to go from zero to big-launch feature in less than two days.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, it shows that today’s blog post was fiction.
The sky voice they took down has existed for more than a year. It's different to the new demo that kicked this all off.
The voice didn’t change, just the ability of the model to “output laughter, singing, or express emotion”.
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#210If we're talking about the voice from the "Say hello to GPT-4o", then this is clearly not Scarlett J. They have similar voices, but SJ has more bass and rasp. And if it's true that OpenAI hired a different actor, then this should basically be case closed. The voice of Sky (assuming that's the same as the demo video), sounds like a run of the mill voice actor tbh. Great, but not that interesting or unique.
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