Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
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Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#2Echoes of when Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice. That time it was impossible to tell who was in the right - there was no available recording of OpenAI's supposed Scarlett clone - they had pulled it immediately for fear of bad PR.
Then came the completely nonsensical HN threads with people arguing about something they hadn't heard.
Maybe don't redo that whole thing? Could we at least make sure to secure some examples of A and B, this time?
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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice (May 20, 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225 (1021 comments)
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show (May 23, 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448045 (1218 comments)
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#3Also available on msn.com sans paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/he-spent-decades-perfectin...
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#4His voice doesn't sound that distinctive to me. He's going to have a hard time unless he can find some emails that say, use David Green's voice.
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#5> Greene felt the male voice sounded just like him
Turns out he still has his own voice, that one sounds like him.
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#6I always thought the female voice sounded eerily similar to Tracy Alloway.
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#7I listen to some Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts. The main host (Chris Fisher) regularly pops up in NotebookLLM content, with his voice. Sometimes it just jumps in, and then after some time out again. It’s usually a pretty perfect imitation, I can’t hear the difference .
Edit, here an older piece, there have been many since: [0], it’s the 3rd voice that enters the NotebookLLM clip so it takes a minute before it comes in (shared this clip here late 2024 [1]).
[0] https://podverse.fm/clip/Vy4y7ZG2Rd
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=NotebookLM%20Copied%20a%20Podc...
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#8> Greene felt the male voice sounded just like him Turns out he still has his own voice, that one sounds like him.
That's likely the case because they deliberately cloned his voice.
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#9At a certain point with generative AI we're going to run out of voices and faces the same way we run out of domain names and trademarks.
Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
#10His voice doesn't sound that distinctive to me. He's going to have a hard time unless he can find some emails that say, use David Green's voice.
His voice doesn't sound that distinctive to me.
It doesn't matter whether it sounds distinctive to you. What matters is whether it's close enough to the real person's voice to be an infringement.
Just like it doesn't matter if you used a machine to duplicate a painting. It's still an infringement.
You can't publish a Harry Potter novel and then throw up your hands and say, "It wasn't me. The AI decided to name the characters Hargid and Hermione and Snape."
Google says it paid a voice actor. If it provides proof of that, good. But like with a lot of AI things, we're in new territory here.
Seems like there's a market for a tool that can compare an AI voice to a library of known famous voices so that companies like Google can tweak their machines to not sound too much like someone who can be harmed by a sound-alike.