qarl

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by qarl 2y ago
It’s not perfectly fine. If a company uses an actress because she sounds similar to a character they want to associate with their product, they are liable for damages whether or not the actress lists “impersonator” in her job description.
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by qarl 2y ago
> "Hey, this sounds just like the actress in 'Her', great, let's use them" You agree that OpenAI is choosing the voice because it sounds like SJ. How exactly is that different from impersonation?
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by qarl 2y ago
You should read it yourself, and the Watts case, and any other impersonator case. You can use impersonators for parody, but not for selling products.
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by qarl 2y ago
I'm just listing known facts.
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by qarl 2y ago
> They could have taken auditions from 50 voice actors, come across this one, thought to themselves "Hey, this sounds just like the actress in 'Her', great, let's use them" and that would be fine. Except that is
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by qarl 2y ago
If "Her" weren't Sam's favorite movie, and if Sam hadn't tweeted "her" the day it launched, and if they hadn't asked SJ to do the voice, and if they hadn't tried to reach her again two days befor
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by qarl 2y ago
You seem to be conveniently ignoring the fact that OpenAI is selling conversational AIs.
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by qarl 2y ago
Parody is a protected fair use case. You can make a Saturday Night Live sketch making fun of Darth Vader. You cannot use a Darth Vader imitator to sell light sabers.
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by qarl 2y ago
I'm sorry friend, I don't know what to tell you. I find it extremely hard to believe.
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by qarl 2y ago
> Genuine question, what's wrong with trying to replicate in real life an idea from a SciFi movie ? The thing is, there are several cases where a jury found this exact thing to warrant damages. But honestly, that is irrelevant. The
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by qarl 2y ago
Right. And that's extremely hard to believe. A discovery search of the internal emails should give us a definitive answer.
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by qarl 2y ago
I'll take that wager. How much? I say we make it large enough to be interesting.
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by qarl 2y ago
You don't think being a flirtatious, newly invented voice-only artificial intelligence is a parallel? Hm.
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by qarl 2y ago
The only reason for using a voice that sounds like ScarJo is to create an association between the product and the character in "Her". There is no other reason. And whether you think it's fair or not, intentionally trying to
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by qarl 2y ago
> Except it isn’t. Again, you’re acting like OpenAI tried to profit off of Scarlett. They tried to profit off of the portrayal she did in the movie Her. Ahhh... so you admit OpenAI has been shady, but you argue they're actually ripp
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by qarl 2y ago
> No it's not put to rest, because if they used a different voice actress for the model then it's a legitimate move. That is simply untrue. Check out the Midler-Ford case, the Tom Waits case as just two examples. If the intent
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by qarl 2y ago
I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree here, friend. You take care now.
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by qarl 2y ago
I think you and I are just going to have to agree to disagree about the meaning of the phrase "loads better".
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by qarl 2y ago
No, it won't. These games are bottle-necked by their GPU, not their CPU.
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by qarl 2y ago
LOL. I dare you to pull up that decompiled C code and tell me to my face it's nicer than 64-bit NEC VR4300 assembly.
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by qarl 2y ago
OMG. Did he just use the halting problem to suggest that programmers won't be replaced by AI? Dude, 99.999% of programming today is writing HTML.
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by qarl 2y ago
I agree that the Sky voice is flirtatious. But I'd also argue that flirtatiousness is a very good match for the character of Samatha in "Her" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV01B5kVsC0&t=84s
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by qarl 2y ago
HEH... ok? I'm not sure that's relevant. The question is - does a human developing a relationship with a post-human sentience make the story automatically dystopian? Seems to be you'd have to be pretty prejudiced against AI
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by qarl 2y ago
True. But in the story, the algorithms are better humans than the humans, so it wasn't actually a bad thing.
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by qarl 2y ago
I dunno - I think I'm a pretty normal person, and I thought they sound extremely similar. I thought it was pretty obviously intentional.
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by qarl 2y ago
Nearly every N64 emulator will let you run at an unlimited frame rate. There is almost no performance difference between an emulated and the recompiled version.
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by qarl 2y ago
So, no, no real practical difference. > Really the main draw is that the native version is more amenable to modding. Why on earth should that be true?
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by qarl 2y ago
Right. But, to the average person playing the game, what is the practical difference? None, right?
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by qarl 2y ago
So if an AI wrote a touching poem, would you call it fake or not? And how is that different than a joke?
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by qarl 2y ago
> It's a computation model, it cannot feel emotion. HEH. I'd love to see your proof for that statement.

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