She was paid for her role in Her... and not so much for the OpenAI cloning of her voice.
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So nothing profound in Her? Like something approaching sentience?
Yeah, imo SJ’s voice is intellectual property, from a commercial aspect. The legal question then might become can different people sound alike? The answer might be yes, but then there are famous voices so distinctive, they are virtually one of a kind. 🤔 The LLMs seem to be all over ripping off intellectual property.
Apparently Nvidia was training it's AI on 80 years of films per day. They say it's ok as it's for leaning purpose, funny how they can play by their own rules....
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I thought OpenAI used professional voice actors as training data.
Haven’t heard from that.
I’m currently halfway through Season 3 of The Blacklist. I have read on Reddit that Elizabeth Keen gets to be annoying after about S4 or S5. I guess we’ll see as I continue the show. But I am mainly watching it because of James Spader’s character. He is golden.
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People in the comments keep saying that this is Reddit in real life. They can’t be wrong.
If you find glaring grammar mistakes on my messages, you’re more than welcome to correct me. I’m trying to get the C1 in English and just choosing the right preposition (especially in/on/at) or adverb position in a sentence is challenging enough.
It's a good show..
post about it here though...
Strange Darling - 7/10. Considering the scorching drought of decent movies coming out of Hollywood this was actually quite good.
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Apologies if I offended you, I didn't mean to.
I simply meant to point out that the AI companies are not paying actors to do their voice training.
They are simply taking the product of professional actors and using it without permission.
English is a language that is incredibly hard to use 'properly'. It is a mix of vocabularies and grammars from --
- Old Britton/Gaelic
- Roman Latin
- Old Danish
- Old French
- Middle English
- Modern French, German, Spanish, etc, etc, etc
- Disputes between English English, American English, Australian English, etc.
People like to fly into a tornado eh?
The other major difficulty (complaint, really) for learners of English is that how it's written is often not how it's spoken. And there's no consistency. So spoken English often has to be learned by ear (pronunciation) rather than by reading it. Much unlike most European languages where what you see is what you get in speaking. This I hear often from my foreign friends.
I have the utmost respect for ESL and multi-language people. I only speak English and don’t even do that well. I dabble in two other languages but if dropped off in the middle of their countries I would not survive
So long as you know the words for washroom and McDonalds you should be ok...
You would, I have. While born in the UK I've spent by far the vast majority of my life on the move starting with Europe. Currently resident in P.R. China. That's life and normality for me...
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Now that you mention that (I assume you’re from the US because you said washroom instead of restroom, bathroom or toilet), in your country, when you are far from your house/apartment/flat, and not in your workplace either, and you need to pee, where do you go? Maybe gas stations o the closest mall? It is a question that I recurrently make to myself because in my country we have a few malls, but other than that, you must go into a bar and order something to drink before using the restroom… and quite often when you end your drink and you urgently need to pee, the restroom is worse than what Dante saw in his descent to hell.
I know just enough to get slapped in two foreign languages. Mandarin happens to be one of the them.
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Spent over 20 years in SE Asia and will likely never leave. Been to the artic down to the equator and a good deal more. Our children share my wonder lust, daughters is studying in Malborne, son is working on a business in Xin jiang. Spent three years there and would return in a heartbeat... Life is for the living
Always wanted to see Antarctica & Papua New Guinea first hand, as in living & working. One down, one to go....
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That's how to do it. Though some folks are homebodies...Spent over 20 years in SE Asia and will likely never leave. Been to the artic down to the equator and a good deal more. Our children share my wonder lust, daughters is studying in Malborne, son is working on a business in Xin jiang. Spent three years there and would return in a heartbeat... Life is for the living
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Sounds very exciting and valuable experiences for your children. Well done. I envy that you execute what others, myself included, typically dream about. When it is all over you will not have just visited this world.Spent over 20 years in SE Asia and will likely never leave. Been to the artic down to the equator and a good deal more. Our children share my wonder lust, daughters is studying in Malborne, son is working on a business in Xin jiang. Spent three years there and would return in a heartbeat... Life is for the living
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I’ve not travelled too much but intend to visit Israel despite the current situation. Also on my list are the WWII venues. For now it is just too difficult to crave out the time. See what I mean? Old habits are hard to break.
As for movies, I planned to see the 70th Anniversary of Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart today but my afternoon isn’t looking too good. I even bought 4 seats already. Such is life.