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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by steveBK123 »

mrieck wrote: post #711
steveBK123 wrote: post #37

Incredibly stupid The wink wink at creating an AI girlfriend is so bizarre I guess we know who their target user base is

I can't believe this demo hasn't been deleted yet: 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.

This demo and the one I linked just seem so open about the AI GF use case its bizarre.

If you actually wanted a voice assistant AI, having a giggly, chatty computer acting like it has a huge crush on you is not remotely useful in day to day real world use. Unless that's exactly what you want.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by j-bos »

IceDane wrote: post #836
gkanai wrote: post #656

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast had an ex-CIA officer, Phil Houston, on in April of 2024. He was promoting a new book but he had a lot of great advice for anyone to use regarding 'tells' when people are lying. Murati was clearly lying- that's obvious then and now. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-ex-cia-officer-expl...

Is there actually any evidence for this? AFAIK, other similar claims about people doing certain things when lying have been debunked(like fidgeting, avoiding eye contact, etc)

It's context amd person to person specific, with many possibilities for false positives and negatives.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by nox101 »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #833
nox101 wrote: post #756

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To each their own. I personally didn't get Scarlett Johansson vibes from the voice on the GPT-4o demo ( https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ ) even though I'm a huge fan of hers (loved Her, loved Jojo Rabbit, even loved Lucy, and many many others) and have watched those and others multiple times. I'd even say I have a bit of a celebrity crush. To me it's about as close to her voice as saying "It's a woman's voice".…

OpenAI confirmed it by removing the voice immediately after Johansson's lawyers reached out

That's not confirmation. That's called prudence.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by krisoft »

unraveller wrote: post #694
krisoft wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is what discovery is for. If this would ever get to that phase. Someone from OpenAi hired the agency who hired the voice talent (or talents) for the voice data. They sent them a brief explaining what they are looking for, followed by a metric ton of correspondence over samples and contracts and such. If anywhere during those written communications anyone wrote “we are looking for a ScarlettJ imitator”, or words…

Discovery works both ways. The original Her voice actress[1] was recast to someone more SoCal in post-production, so there is evidence of the flirty erotic AI style itself not being a unique enough selling point. It will come down to what makes the complaining celebrity's voice iconic, which for Scarjo is the 'gravelly' bit. Which smooth Sky had none of. [1] actress reading poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEEA…

> Discovery works both ways.

Ok? What materials would you suspect discovery can uncover from Scarlett or her team?

> was recast to someone more SoCal in post-production

Was recast to Scarlett Johansson. Hardly a good argument if you want to argue that her voice is not unique.

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Post by dontupvoteme »

imjonse wrote: post #615
vasilipupkin wrote: post #533

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if this account is true, Sam Altman is a deeply unethical human being. Given that he doesn't bring any technical know how to building of AGI, I just don't see the reason to have such a person in charge here. The new board should act.

He rubs elbows with very powerful people including CEOs, heads of state and sheiks. They probably want 'one of them' in charge of the company that has the best chances of getting close to AGI. So it's not his technical chops and not even 'vision' in the Jobs sense that keeps him there.

Are they really the ones with the best chance now though?

They're basically owned by Microsoft, they're bleeding tech/ethnical talent and credibility, and most importantly Microsoft Research itself is no slouch (especially post-Deepmind poaching) - things like Phi are breaking ground on planets that openai hasn't even touched.

At this point I'm thinking they're destined to become nothing but a premium marketing brand for Microsoft's technology.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by OrangeMusic »

aaronharnly wrote: post #11

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.

I honestly didn't think it sounded like Johansson. Because of the controversy I just now re listened to the demos and I still find if very unlikely that someone would think it was her.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by OrangeMusic »

akr4s1a wrote: post #60
alsodumb wrote: post #2

Why do I feel like Sam's 'her' tweet pretty much gave Scarlett Johansson's legal counsel all the ammo they needed lol.

So was asking her to reconsider 2 days before the demo, how blatant can you get

They really wanted her voice yes. Does that prove anything?
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