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.
ScarJo being what takes down Saltman’s wannabe Skynet isn’t what I have on my bingo card, but would be is insanely funny.
AI stans? In my sneer club tech takes?
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
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™®<<US Court Flavour - Special Edition>> the extremely obvious fact that openai did a bit of thieving
A few years and he will go full Musk as lomg as the far-right helps him to destroy copyright protections but allow AI companies to copyright their own creations.
Altman is the P.T. Barnum of tech
Love it, so many great quotes in this piece but this is my favourite.
Eagerly awaiting the lawsuit and discovery where it’ll turn out the datasets for Sky were completely accidentally called scajo_01.dat through scajo_42.dat.
