Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit
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Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scarlett Johansson, I felt the need to write something. Don’t worry, I

Wake up honey, new Zitron just dropped.

Looks like Sammy boy has a crush on Scarlett Johansson and wanted to model his sexy chatbot after her role in the movie Her. The damage control is actually hilarious.

Altman subsequently claimed that the actress for Sky was cast before the company reached out to Johansson.

“Yeah, I don’t want to go out with you anyway. Also, I already have a girlfriend but she goes to a different school, so you wouldn’t know her. And no, I won’t tell you who it is!”

I mean, we all knew that OpenAI is a fucking clown show of a company run by wannabe nerd frat boys with way too much money, but I didn’t think we’d get high school level relationship drama this season.

    •  self   ( @self@awful.systems ) English
      31•11 months ago

      given how fucking embarrassing this has been for OpenAI, I’m expecting a lot of variants of the current “uhh I listened to the voice and it didn’t sound like her to me” shit take from the peanut gallery, which really falls apart given there’s enough of a resemblance that OpenAI had to take down the voice and refuses to give a straight answer on the sources used to create it

      also both altman and a fuckton of breathless journalists compared the fucking thing with one of Johansson’s performances? like I said, fucking embarrassing shit for OpenAI

      •  froztbyte   ( @froztbyte@awful.systems ) English
        9•11 months ago

        which really falls apart given there’s enough of a resemblance that OpenAI had to take down the voice

        you know, I want the peanut brigade to come in with waves of “I listened to it but it didn’t sound that similar to me!”, if only just because it’ll serve as demonstration of mispurposed belief

        kinda shitty that scarjo is only at letters-and-statements, but then again US law is a fucking disasterzone and fuck knows what’d needed to Actually Prove™®<> the extremely obvious fact that openai did a bit of thieving

  •  froztbyte   ( @froztbyte@awful.systems ) English
    12•11 months ago

    When OpenAI issued a casting call last year for a secret project to endow OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT with a human voice, the flier had several requests: The actors should be nonunion. They should sound between 25 and 45 years old. And their voices should be “warm, engaging [and] charismatic.”

    One thing the artificial intelligence company didn’t request, according to interviews with multiple people involved in the process and documents shared by OpenAI in response to questions from The Washington Post: a clone of actress Scarlett Johansson

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    gotta love the lucy-football here. “no no, we never requested that it sound like her!”

    sure leaves out whether it was chosen to be that. of all the voice actors out there, they just happened to stumble over and choose the exact one that had a voice like scarjo? happens to everyone, all the time. just like forgetting your keys as you walk out the front door. perfectly normal. pay no attention to the other attempts to get legal cover on delivery day…

    •  Shitgenstein1   ( @Shitgenstein1@awful.systems ) English
      15•11 months ago

      it’s a movie about (only in part but imo motivated by) Spike Jonze’s break up with Sofia Coppola. It’s neither positive or negative about AI per se. AI is a narrative vehicle for the sense of falling in love, growing apart, being left behind, and the aftermath of that break up. At the end, the AI lovingly says goodbye and leaves humanity behind.