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Incredibly stupid The wink wink at creating an AI girlfriend is so bizarre I guess we know who their target user base is
https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1790089521985466587
Giggly, flirty AI voice demos were already weird, but now it's even creepier knowing the backstory of how they try to get their voices.
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He has a certain charm and seeming sincerity when he talks. But the more I see of him, the more disturbing I find him -- he combines the Mark Zuckerberg stare with the Elizabeth Holmes vocal fry.
so all psychopaths do, aren't they?
To me, that reads like the same kind of snake oil he sold Elon when he proposed the joint founding of OpenAI.
I can just about imagine the books in his private library. The Prince. 48 Laws of Power. Win Friends and Inference People.
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You'd think that Worldcoin would be enough proof of what he is but I guess people missed that memo.
Much as I dislike crypto, that's more of "having no sense of other people's privacy" (and hubris) than general scamminess. It's a Musk-error not an SBF-error. (Of course, I do realise many will say all three are the same, but I think it's worth separating the types of mistakes everyone makes, because everyone makes mistakes, and only two of these three also did useful things).
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline: - OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused. - Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) - Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarle…
OpenAI first demoed and launched the “Sky” voice in November last year. The new demo doesn’t appear to have a new voice.
I doubt it would take them long to prepare a new voice, and who’s to say they wouldn’t delay the announcements for a ScarJo voice?
A charitable interpretation of the “her” tweet would be a comparison to the conversational and AI capabilities of the product, not the voice specifically, but it’s certainly not a good look.
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Yeah, an ScarJo asked them to provide evidence of this before suing them, and they couldn't... and they have a track record of lying.
Why shouldn't we trust what OpenAI says? If they say they used another actress, we should give them the benefit of the doubt. Questioning them only gives fuel to their detractors, which could in turn slow progress and reduce investment in the space.
sama tweet after the demo + SJo's press release + OpenAI not even risking it and pulling out the voice from ChatGPT should raise enough doubts if anything.
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But like, Uber gave us taxis on our phones. No taxi company was going to do that without a force like Uber making them to it.
It also gave you cab drivers who don't earn enough to be able to replace their vehicles. You can cheer on "forces" like Uber all you like but I would prefer it if progress happened without criminal deception: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak... I don't see how anyone can read this and think the uber app is a net positive.
Why does everything keep getting worse? Why do people keep making less? We need to figure out the answers to these questions. And no, nobody here knows them.
The more I find out about Altman the more I agree with the previous board about removing him. The guy just feels sleazy to me. Though he is doing what I want and that is not giving a fuck about artificial monopolies granted by government ie copyright
Actually it’s the copyright that is supposed to prevent a monopoly arising in the form of an OpenAI, or Google News back in the day.