Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

I think we- as a collective- should adopt the same type of community that AO3 has- “don’t like? Don’t read.” (Don’t like? Don’t use” or, something along those lines to just ignore it.) I just looked at the reddit and apparently some people are being harassed, ya’ll, if you don’t like it just ignore it because if it’s against the rules it’s gonna be taken down. The mods are clearly working hard because I haven’t come across much of anything against the rules. Also you can filter tags in Janitor along with AO3 so I’m pretty sure you can just select tags to exclude (if we don’t have that yet, we need it, honestly I’ve been chatting with the same bots for months so I haven’t really checked.) Anyways, what do you guys think? :^

So, I’ve been seeing name brand accounts everywhere. yeah it’s funny, but it’s super annoying. For example; a creator reading reviews and seeing a name brand account absolutely roasting them or promoting the brand instead of actually reviewing the bot.

like I know its not the actual brand, it’s just some troll going around and making an image of themselves, but it’s hella annoying.

i don’t mean to sound like I’m gatekeeping, but this is the kinda stuff that will expose to a bigger audience that has the wrong people in it, and can cause the website some issues.

am I the only one annoyed by this?

I personally think they should stop. It’s annoying asf

Now that OpenAI removed the Sky voice, the actress who voiced her has lost ongoing royalties or fees that she would have gotten had Scarlett Johannson not started this nonsense.

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Each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products.

Given that we now know, thanks to the Washington Post article, that OpenAI never intended to clone Johannson's voice, and that the voice of Sky was not manipulated, that Sky's voice was being used long, long before the OpenAI event, and the , Johannson's accusations seem frivolous and bordering on defamation.

The actress robbed of her once-in-a-lifetime deal, has said that she takes the comparisons to Johannson personally.

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This all "feels personal," the voice actress said, "being that it’s just my natural voice and I’ve never been compared to her by the people who do know me closely."

As long as it was merely the public making the comparison, it's fine, because that's life, but Johannson's direct accusation pushed things over the top and caused OpenAI to drop the Sky voice to avoid controversy.

What we have here, is a multi-million dollar actress using her pulpit to torch the career of a regular voice actress, without any proof, other than a tweet of "her" by the CEO of OpenAI, which was obviously a reference to the technology of "her", and not Johannson's voice.

Does anyone actually believe that on the moment when we introduce era-defining technologies, that the most important thing on anyone's mind is Johannson's voice? I mean, what the hell! I'm sure it would have been been a nice cherry on the cake for OpenAI to have Johannson's voice, but it's such a small part of the concept, that it stinks of someone's ego getting so big to think that they're the star of a breakthrough technology.

Johannson's actions have directly led to the loss of a big chunk of someone's livelihood - a deal that would have set up the Sky voice actress for life. There needs to be some justice for this. We can't have rich people just walking over others like this.