8 ms·
The actual Sky voice actor was interviewed and, surprise, she sounds way more like the OpenAI voice than Scarlett. That said, this is certainly a problem we wi
by mvkel 2y ago
The actual Sky voice actor was interviewed and, surprise, she sounds way more like the OpenAI voice than Scarlett.
That said, this is certainly a problem we will see in the future.
- yyyyybb 2y agoBut it’s more like identity theft, they are stealing his identity, not mimicking him. They are hijacking his fame, obviously that’s the just of the commercial. This is free speech.
- mvkel 2y agoOh of course, I don't disagree with the Waits decision at all. I just presume this was posted as a proxy for the OpenAI situation.
- frank_nitti 2y agoI think your confusion may be the difference between the popular demo people are referencing and the Sky voice actress’s actual voice. Copying a comment from another HN user (not sure if appropriate to name them): * This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g * compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=158 https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=158 That seems like quite a strong resemblance to me.
- collingreen 2y agoI think openai looks pretty bad right now, especially with the "her" tweet, but I can't honestly say these voices sound similar. The her clip is so iconically scarjo and I don't think the sky voice is even that close. I'm not a voice expert and I dont know all the technical terms but it isn't very similar in tone, cadence, or what I want to call texture (?) I wanted to laugh at and belittle openai when I first saw scarjos claim that her friends and family couldn't tell the difference but from the samples you just linked I find that so unlikely that I think she is lying.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- akaru 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y agoPlease don't post like this, for a couple reasons: one is that it "never does any good and makes boring reading", as the site guidelines have said for many years: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The other reason is that in cases where a comment didn't deserve to be downvoted (which you're right, was the case here), fair-minded users will usually come along and give the post a corrective upvote (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=corrective%20upvote https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Which fixes the problem except then comments like your reply here linger on as inaccurate—there's no garbage collector to take care of them.
- mdorazio 2y agoThese do not sound close at all to me.
- Aloisius 2y agoUh, those don't sound like the same person at all. The former uptalks (high rising terminal) a lot. The cadence is different, the pitch is different. > It looks? like you're part of some recording? or production setup? With those lights? tripod? and possibly a mic? It looks like you might be gearing up to shoot a video? or maybe even a live stream? They both have a vocal fry, but the former sounds more like valley girl without the slang or vowel lengthening.
- whimsicalism 2y agothey are certainly both the voices of women
- sroussey 2y agoHere is the article above poster is referring to. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-...
- Retric 2y agoIf they had simply used Sky from the beginning and stuck with her natural voice they would likely be in the clear. The problem OpenAI has is they tried to get Scarlet to do the voice and after she declined OpenAI found someone who has a similar voice to do it. That shows intent which would otherwise be difficult, combined with the actual result being closer to Scarlet’s voice than Sky is naturally and they are likely going to lose. Edit: By after I am saying they decided to use Sky’s voice not that it was recorded first.
- r2_pilot 2y ago>The problem OpenAI has is they tried to get Scarlet to do the voice and after she declined OpenAI found someone who has a similar voice to do it. As the public currently knows based on reporting from WaPo, the original VA was selected and performed her role (months) BEFORE they reached out to Scarlett for the first time. Please don't misconstrue the timeline for other people that are just now tuning in.
- thih9 2y agoWhy does this matter? I'd say whether they contacted ScarJo before, after or not at all is irrelevant. Then again, yes, I guess best to present events and the timeline as they were.
- Retric 2y agoThey made the choice to use that voice after she decided otherwise they would never have approached Scarlet. When the recording session occurred is irrelevant. They wanted her voice, couldn’t get it, and then chose to use something similar.
- thih9 2y agoYou mean the voice actor's natural speaking pattern is more similar to the OpenAI Sky voice than ScarJo's performance in Her movie? Perhaps. But isn't that expected? They still created a voice that sounds like ScarJo - and many signs point to that being intentional. Overall, not unlike the case in "Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc".
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoNot looking forward to a future in which some media company owns a couple hundred voices whose "sounds similar to" halo cover 99.99% of human voices.
- r2_pilot 2y agoYep I've had a similar thought. Heck, in my personal life I've been confused with so many people both celebrity and locals, that I just shrug at this point and move on with my life.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- ApolloFortyNine 2y agoIt's by far the most obvious outcome of this AI hate fueled rage on this topic. In 10 years the very same people complaining on twitter and here will be complaining that the big 3 music labels are taking down smaller musicians. A voice isn't that unique in the grand scheme of things.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- tacocataco 2y agoThis reminds me of this article on a couple of people trying to make every "possible song" public domain. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmic...
- 2y ago
- mvkel 2y agoThe Sky voice has been in the app for... at least 8 months? The 4o voice stuff hasn't even been released.