Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

Post by limitedfrom » Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:22 PM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #43

panarky wrote: post #6

Altman would have us believe it's all just an innocent misunderstanding but without actually saying so: "We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson." Is he trying to suggest the company did not try to make the voice sound like her without her permission? The statement sounds like it's written by a lawyer to be technically true while implying something that is actually false. These…

Jim Carrey made his career by impersonating celebrity voices. So did Rich Little.

Post by wk_end » Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

frankacter wrote: post #131

LeonB wrote: post #93

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In back to the future II, Crispin Glover didn’t sign up to be George McFly so they used facial prosthetics and impersonation to continue the George McFly character. He sued Universal, and reportedly settled for $760,000. Example article on the topic - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bac...

While not defending OpenAI or Altman, the caveat here is that this was a voice actor using their natural voice, not an actor impersonating scarlett johansson. Setting a precedent that if your natural voice sounds similar to a more famous actor precludes you from work would be a terrible precedent to set.

Post by hot_gril » Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #87

feedforward wrote: post #57

It seems to me that the tech money people and executives have become nuts in the past few years. This, the YIMBY (really YIYBY, NIMBY) movement, /e/acc, the VCs going to war with San Francisco politicians (including the drunken threats from the current head of YC). Never mind China, Europe seems to have had enough and even DC is having enough on some level. Not sure when this started, didn't seem to be at this level…

YIMBY is a very, very broad group of people who just see how bad the housing crisis is and want to fix it, and realize that a big chunk of that fix is legalizing housing that's perfectly normal in much of the world. Don't lump us in with the out of control tech bro culture people like Musk.

Post by runeofdoom » Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #120

popalchemist wrote: post #61

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> "Move fast and break things" is explicitly, exactly the wrong attitude for the person/team in charge of a world-changing superpower. Thankfully, they aren't in charge of anything like that.

Post by staunch » Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:25 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #100

staunch wrote: post #54

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Steve Jobs was a superficial asshole but was fundamentally a good and ethical person. There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young), which he spent decades making amends for. The people that emulate Steve Jobs poorly are usually real assholes with a long list of ethical mistakes.

> There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young) Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to make Breakout for Atari. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.