By "something happens to me", are you talking about a temporary absence (due to an illness or a vacation or something) or are you talking about the bus number (you get hit by a bus)?
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Did you even look at the Ford commercial? https://youtu.be/hxShNrpdVRs
Having someone sing in the exact same style as another singer is totally different from what OpenAI did with their voice AI (having a female actor speak in a flirty tone).
It makes sense with music but you're setting a really dangerous precedent if you can't even hire a voice actor who sounds similar for speaking.
If an actor is saying no and you have a certain creative vision then what do you do?
Johansson doesn't own the idea of a "flirty female AI voice".
The internet has primarily been built out in the US.
- they used Johannson's actual voice in training the text to speech model
or
- a court finds that they violated Johannson's likeness.
From hearing the demo videos, I don't think the voice sounded that similar to Johannson.
But hiring another actor to replicate someone you refused your offer is not illegal and is done all the time by hollywood.
The movie industry does this all the time.
Johansson is probably suing them so they're forced to remove the Sky voice while the lawsuit is happening.
I'm not a fan of Sam Altman or OpenAI but they didn't do anything wrong here.
OpenAI did nothing wrong.
The movie industry does the same thing all the time. If an actor/actress says no they you find someone else who can play the same role.
They approached Johansson and she said no. They found another voice actor who sounds slightly similar and paid her instead.
The movie industry does this all the time.
Johansson is probably suing them so they're forced to remove the Sky voice while the lawsuit is happening.
Nothing here is shitty.
There should be an easier way to just test out the API.
I was unable to get approved so I guess I'm out $20 for no reason. They have the worst dev experience I've ever seen.
Like seriously.
They first make you deposit $20 to get started. THEN, they tell you to talk to customer support to activate your account (customer support took forever to reply).
Oh and then I had to fill out like 3 applications and my text messages are still randomly getting blocked - I have no idea why.
To be clear, this is literally just me using Twilio to text myself to test out the API. I'm not some spammer or something. It was impossible to get started.
So an ETF is an exchange traded fund. Public equities are also exchange traded but that doesn't mean that ETFs are traded on the stock market.
> With ETFs you can't invest in a specific thing. You are investing in some category.
Not really though?
You can buy gold, silver, crude oil and a bunch of other commodities. You have currency ETFs, Real Estate ETFs, etc.
There's volatility ETFs if you want to hedge risk. There's tons of "specific things".
You also have futures markets. So you can also buy a futures contract for corn or something.
There's also betting markets, but those aren't really "buying anything". I guess you can buy an "athlete/team's performance" by betting on them.
Textbooks on physics, chem, etc.
> Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties, the Journal said, citing unnamed witnesses and others with knowledge of the matter.
Haha okay. Unknown sources == fabricated 90% of the time, especially with the WSJ.
He said he uses Ketamine as prescribed by a doctor (Ketamine Therapy IS a real thing and we should stop conflating it with recreational drug use).
> Musk’s public use of marijuana with podcaster Joe Rogan in September 2018 led the Pentagon to review the federal security clearance tied to his role as CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which is certified to launch military spy satellites, Bloomberg News first reported in March 2019.
It's on video, so it's harder for WSJ to lie. He literally took one hit and didn't even do it properly (didn't understand that he's supposed to inhale). That pretty clearly showed he didn't know how to smoke weed.
Musk is obviously not some saint or whatever, but dumb hit pieces like this are just bad for everyone.
> Craig Trudell is Bloomberg News Detroit Bureau's new U.S. automotive team leader.
Ahh okay, that makes sense.
Uhh yeah? Because it's been dead since the 1990s? You can look at a graph of new nuclear power platnts and see it curtail off after a peak in the 90s.
> It’s not political, it’s unpopular broadly.
When it was a major political issue, the anti-nuclear advocates were almost entirely on the left. It was seen as part of the environmental movement (which has been left-leaning).
If you look at stats, it's about a 50-50 split in appointments between right vs. left.
I assure you that 99.999% of people really don't care about your car. And they care far, far less about whether you support Elon Musk.
Yes, HN & Redditors have made their views extremely clear.
Just don't be surprised when the rest of the world disagrees.
Now, tell me more about the fantastic results of
- North Korea
- Soviet Union
- Chinese Communist Party
- Venezuela
- Argentina
- Cuba
- India (under socialism)
She strongly believes in increased content moderation by "fact checkers".
She's spread misinformation herself like
- Suggesting Russian disinformation on Facebook shifted the 2016 election (anyone who's run a facebook ad in their life knows how absurdly ridiculous this is)
- Advocating for increased censorship of information during COVID on lab leak hypothesis
This is just off a few minutes of reading her past work.
I'm not a fan of Facebook (in the slightest) but also am really not a fan of the type of censorship this person wants.
Tesla trades at an insanely inflated multiple compared to other car manufacturers. It’s pretty clear they’ve had no difficulty raising money.