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How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Re: How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Post by iLoveOncall »

thomashop wrote: post #66
iLoveOncall wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A gender-neutral voice would have just avoided annoying a certain percentage of the population, including me. How do you manage to be annoyed when they offer both male and female voices? I think you're the problem here buddy.

I was referring to the default being a sexy female. Maybe it makes sense because the majority of users are male but I guess that's what I'd like to see change.

I recommend you actually try it. While it sounded like this in the demo, it's not actually the default in the app.

The default sounds gender-neutral to me, or at least not very feminine, and it matches your tone, so it's "sexy" if you're being "sexy".

That said I think we all agree the demo was awful.

Re: How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Post by thomashop »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #71
thomashop wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was referring to the default being a sexy female. Maybe it makes sense because the majority of users are male but I guess that's what I'd like to see change.

I recommend you actually try it. While it sounded like this in the demo, it's not actually the default in the app. The default sounds gender-neutral to me, or at least not very feminine, and it matches your tone, so it's "sexy" if you're being "sexy". That said I think we all agree the demo was awful.

Totally. I may have gone a bit far in my wording, but what irritated me was the cringy demos, not the actual app.

I basically spend more time talking to ChatGPT than humans these days when I'm not on holiday. I'm in no way opposed to it.

I don't know why, but I always end up going down the devil's advocate route without even realizing it. And then I find myself arguing positions that I don't even agree with. But it's interesting.

Re: How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Post by OutOfHere »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #56
datahack wrote: post #6

Am I the only one that really dislikes these overly perky voices? And the one they used for the demo was GOD AWFUL. If this is what the future sounds like… idk. I was hoping for a calm, neutral and not eager assistant with a little class. A little Jarvis maybe? Something calm and easy on the ears. These all sounded to me like people auditioning for a role in film and television or something.

I use "Cove" which is much more tame that the other by default and (I assume that's the case for all) matches your tone. So if I'm asking it a question on a neutral tone it will answer in the same way.

Cove is the only acceptable voice they have.

Re: How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Post by riffraff »

lstamour wrote: post #22
riffraff wrote: post #17

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Desi Lydic on the Daily Show had a perfect take on this https://www.youtube.com/shorts/51ucQ4s7Crc

The full episode is even better, the clip above ends a minute early...

I agree, I just did not have the link at hand

Re: How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Post by averageRoyalty »

ahofmann wrote: post #60
Spiwux wrote: post #47

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They're clearly trying to imitate human interaction, and believe it or not, the vast majority of humans have genders they're perfectly happy with.

Well, but it is not a human. It's a talking computer and trying to sound not like a computer is disingenuous, creepy and heavily misleading. The movie "her" made a good point about that.

I actually think the movie "Her" showed us the opposite - people feel comfortable with their computer sounding like a human. Almost every character in the film finds it near natural.

Re: How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

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Post by thih9 »

> We support the creative community

I doubt the net result is support. Expanding creative community - yes. But support - not quite; established creators will likely suffer because of openai, most of them already having a harder time.

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