It's OK everyone. I saw some people on HN say that "it sounds nothing her voice". I believe them over Her.
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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#212I think it’s interesting that Johansson chose to forgo substantial royalties and collaboration potential But it must feel pretty fucking weird and violatory when you spend your entire life thinking about how you are going to deliver certain lines and that’s your creative Body of work, and then for someone to just take that Voice and apply it to any random text that can be generated? I get why she wouldn’t want to let…
She choose to forego being a billion lonely guys AI girlfriend Not a bad call for someone already rich
More like delaying the inevitable. We have ai voice generation so good now, they use it to stage ransom calls and parents cannot tell the difference.
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#214"Sky" voice has been the default for about 8 months now, I think, if it resembles Scarlett Johansson so much, why does no one seem to have mentioned it before?
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She choose to forego being a billion lonely guys AI girlfriend Not a bad call for someone already rich
> She choose to forego being a billion lonely guys AI girlfriend To suggest that Johansson’s only appeal is to the opposite gender (and ‘lonely’ ones at that!) I think is myopic and reductive of her impact
That was not an exclusive statement. It can be a billion lonely guys, AND lonely women, AND gregarious enbies, AND everyone else.
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Worse than that, good luck positioning yourself as a paragon of "AI safety" when you can't even handle basic human business relationships honestly.
Absolutely. Good for Scarlett, and my gosh Sam and that org need to learn a few lessons. What were they thinking?? So gross.
Will be funny if Sam was the bad guy all along
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Almost as if they knew that they cloned her voice without her permission. Don't hear any arguments on how this is fair-use. (It isn't) Why? Because everyone (including OpenAI) knows it clearly isn't fair-use even after pulling the voice.
> Don't here any arguments on how this is fair-use. > Why? Because it's a right of personality issue, not copyright, and there is no fair use exception (the definition of the tort is already limited to a subset of commercial use which makes the Constitutional limitation that fair use addresses in copyright not relevant, and there is no statutory fair use exception to liability under the right of personality.)
you're doing god's work; ignorance is never-ending
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#218i think openai would do better if they had principles, values, etc. around responsibility and ownership.
it doesn't seem like principles should matter. but then the bill of rights doesn't seem like it should matter either if you were to cold read the constitution (you might be like - hmm, kinda seems important maybe...).
it compounds culturally over time though. principles ^ time = culture.
"Audacious, Thoughtful, Unpretentious, Impact-driven, Collaborative, and Growth-oriented."
https://archive.is/wLOfC#selection-1095.112-1095.200
maybe "thoughtful" was the closest (and sam is apologetic and regretful and transparent - kudos to him for that). but it's not that clear without a core principle around responsibility. you need that imho to avoid losing trust.
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Sure they could have taken her to court but right now they don't want the bad publicity, especially since it would put everything else in the shadow of such a scandalous "story". Better to just back off, let S.J. win and move on and start planning on they're gonna spend all that paper money they got with announcement of a new, more advanced model. It's a financial decision and a fairly predictable one. I'm glad she w…
Paper money from the model they're giving away for free?
I mean if you don't think these kinds of positive announcements don't increase the value of the company or parent company then I don't really know how to convince you as it's a standard business principle.
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#220Johansson has money to hire lawyers and immediate access to media, so they backed off. Altman and OpenAI will walk over everyone here without any difficulty if they decide to take whats ours.
I often wonder why tech people think so positively about companies they idolise who are Uber-ing their way through regulations. Where do they think it stops?
Why would people not want laws? The answer is so they can do the things that the laws prevent.
This is POSIWID territory [0]. "The purpose of a system is what it does". Not what it repeatedly fails to live up to.
What was the primary investment purpose of Uber? Not any of the things it will forever fail to turn a profit at. It was to destroy regulations preventing companies like Uber doing what they do. That is what it succeeded at.
The purpose of OpenAI is to minimise and denigrate the idea of individual human contributions.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...