Well, this confirms that OpenAI have been shooting from the hip, not that we needed much confirmation. The fact that they repeatedly tried to hire Johansson, then went ahead and made a soundalike while explicitly describing that they were trying to make it be like her voice in the movie … is pretty bad for them.
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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#12> 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 may be implied by imagination.
> Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.
"What We Look for in Founders", PG
https://paulgraham.com/founders.html
I think the more powerful you become, the less endearing this trait is.
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#13There is no source; black text on a white background. How do we know this is real?
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#14Well, this confirms that OpenAI have been shooting from the hip, not that we needed much confirmation. The fact that they repeatedly tried to hire Johansson, then went ahead and made a soundalike while explicitly describing that they were trying to make it be like her voice in the movie … is pretty bad for them.
“Shooting from the hip” is giving them too much credit. Actual knowing malice and dishonesty is more like it.
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#16Sadly not much will come of this. Even if they’re fined, so what?
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#17Many of OpenAI's productization ideas make more sense when you remember that the guy in charge also thought Worldcoin and it's eye scanning or were a good idea.
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#18There is no source; black text on a white background. How do we know this is real?
It was posted by the tech reporter at NPR. Inb4 “journos can’t be trusted” blah blah blah, here in reality NPR is a reputable org and a reasonable person’s Bayesian priors would put this at “almost certainly an actual statement from ScarJo.”
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#19Nooo. I've been enjoying that voice for a few months on my iPhone ChatGPT app. Launched... and tested... the voice is someone else now.
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#20> 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…
it seems most of the big companies try to break the rules while in the process become so strong they trade it off for what becomes a marginal fine & cost of doing business. Facebook, Uber come to mind first. This may just be the same.