Comment by IanCal
2 years ago
A very simple answer is that they also wanted SJ as a voice. That doesn't mean the original voice was trying to copy SJ.
They had a voice, the natural comparison watching the interaction is to Her, and they there is likely still time to get actually SJs voice before a public rollout.
In particular, I'm pretty sure you can bake a voice model well enough for a canned demo in two days given we have cloning algs which will do it with 15 seconds of samples.
Production ready? Probably not, but demos don't have to be.
If you believe a known conman like Sam Altman didn't intend to steal SJ's voice I have a bridge to sell you.
See my comment from yesterday re him being a known conman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435120
I find this whole thing very confusing because I never thought the voices sounded identical or very similar. I was initially even more confused about this whole thing because I thought I couldn't find clips of the SJ AI voice only to realize I had but it didn't sound like her.
This opinion is independent of Sam being a conman, scammer, creepy Worldcoin weirdo, and so on.
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