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Oh cmon. Californians are too expensive for training AI. Maybe it's from some malaysian accent?

• muzani 2y ago
  Malaysian here. Uptalk is used more to turn a sentence into a suggestion. Something like "Hey, there's one dim sum left," to suggest that I'm taking this but you can challenge it. I could see why ChatGPT would adopt it. It's trying to be polite. Often it's in a tonal particle, "One dim sum left meh." But it's possible in trying to artificially combine tone and text, the uptalk is moved up. But the tell tones of a Malaysian accent is it's clipped. Instead of "I don't like that idea," it becomes "Don't like it." ChatGPT may be written American, so as an accent, it would sound closer to, "I- don't like, that idea." And sentences often end in an elongated manner, "I wrote that is essay you wanted~". The elongated ends are quite common in many SEA accents as well, especially Thai.
  • nottorp 2y ago
    Oh sorry. Didn't mean to pick on malaysians specifically. I was just pointing out training would be outsourced to somewhere. Like ChatGPT's written english is or was close to nigerian business english...
    • muzani 2y ago
      No offense taken. It got me curious. I actually do train AI to code in Singaporean English in my spare time, so I try to be aware, lol. I'm not aware of voice training though. x.AI outsources lots of stuff to Malaysia. Google has some, but has had this data like for TTS, STT, and Google Translate, for a decade or so.
• wongarsu 2y ago
  Unless you train on twitch streamers. There seems to be an unspoken rule that any successful streamer has to move to LA. If you train on youtubers you get a surprising Mormon bias instead. I would be surprised if the majority of the training data is licensed from the speakers.
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