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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 grumple »

minimaxir wrote: post #262
anon373839 wrote: post #62

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…

Given the timeline, I’m still baffled Sam Altman tweeted “her.” That just makes plausible deniability go away for a random shitpost.

Many people are addicted to attention.

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

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Post by insane_dreamer »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #693
xbmcuser wrote: post #573

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.

Woah, I didn't realize HN harbored this much anti-copyright sentiment.

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

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Post by tsimionescu »

yazzku wrote: post #965
tsimionescu wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Over the top" means exaggerated and corny, almost the opposite of "cool".

I was not contradicting the parent comment, but adding to it. I know what "over the top" means, thank you.

Apologies, I misunderstood your comment then. It really sounded like you were contradicting them.

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

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Post by rockemsockem »

MBCook wrote: post #494
rockemsockem wrote: post #455

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not commenting on open AI specifically, but I feel like actually acquiring the data is borderline impossible if you only follow legal channels. Where can I insert my money to buy every penguin random house book? How do I pay every deviant art artist whatever amount they're owed?

You could go to Penguin directly. Or perhaps the Authors Guild would help you set something up across publishers. All of deviant art? Probably not. But do you need to train on all of that? You could certainly run ads telling people you’d be willing to pay a small amount to train on their art and let them choose. Would it be legal to train against the national archives? Options exist. No you won’t get as much stuff as…

Those sound like really large obstacles. Also, projecting this thinking forward, if we have humanoid robots walking around assisting humans, should they not be able to learn from their environment without paying every time they look at a piece of art or read something?

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

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Post by strikelaserclaw »

iainctduncan wrote: post #484

Sam Altman appears to not be smart enough to realize how much damage his unbridled selfishness and weaselry are capable of doing to Open AI. They have no moat, they can't fix hallucinations, and people are starting to realize it's nowhere near as useful or close to AGI as he's been saying. If they hate him too, this ship is sunk. What a bloody arrogant idiot.

by my estimation gpt latest is only a little better than gemini. i have no loyalty to chatgpt, i'll switch to whatever free service fits my needs.

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

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Post by ramenbytes »

ddalex wrote: post #981
ramenbytes wrote: post #532

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Key difference here is that Scarlett still has her voice.

Ah, violating copyright is not a crime, I see.

The comment I responded to made the statement that OAI behaved like the sea witch who literally stole someone's voice. That is not the case here, since Scarlett still has her voice and OAI only (allegedly?) copied it. Whether OAI violated copyright law is a different matter, but steal her voice they did not.

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

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Post by CRConrad »

keepamovin wrote: post #77
steveBK123 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is not her only appeal, she is a renowned actress. However Sam tweeted "her" which is literally the movie where she voices the AI girlfriend. And then made a synthetic replica of her voice the star of their new demo against her wishes. It's pretty direct what he is pitching at.

Fair enough. But I think your comment was reductive… but it doesn’t matter, because how he may have marketed it in a 140 character tweet does not encompass the entirety of how it could be used, of course

> But I think your comment was reductive…

So what? Reducing a situation to its essentials is an entirely valid argument / debating technique.

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

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Post by keepamovin »

CRConrad wrote: post #999
keepamovin wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough. But I think your comment was reductive… but it doesn’t matter, because how he may have marketed it in a 140 character tweet does not encompass the entirety of how it could be used, of course

> But I think your comment was reductive… So what? Reducing a situation to its essentials is an entirely valid argument / debating technique.

Your mistake is thinking that's the essentials hahaha! :)
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