Lost in Translation: Scarlett Johansson v AI
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at, how much the victims of the infected blood scandal could receive in compensation And a major row between a Hollywood A Lister and OpenAi.
The government has announced some infected blood victims will receive £210,000 compensation within 90 days. This is an initial payment whilst work continues on a final scheme. It is estimated final payments could rise to £2.6m for certain infected people. Adam is joined by the BBC’s health reporter Jim Reed.
And, Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has said she was left "shocked" and "angered" after OpenAI launched a chatbot with an "eerily similar" voice to her own. The AI company have said they would remove the voice, but insisted that it was not meant to be an “imitation”. Does AI pose a real danger to acting? Adam speaks to the BBC’s AI Correspondent Marc Cieslak and Remie Michelle Clarke, a voice over artist who discovered her voice was being used by AI without her knowledge. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Elliot Ryder and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, we haven't played our sound-like game, Bird or Police Car for a while, |
| 0:09.9 | but now we've got a special showbiz A-list edition, |
| 0:13.8 | which is called Scarlet Johanson |
| 0:16.4 | or Artificial Intelligence. |
| 0:18.3 | Let's hear the first one. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm doing fantastic. |
| 0:21.2 | Thanks for asking. |
| 0:22.1 | How about you? And let's hear |
| 0:24.4 | clip B. Good morning Theodore. Good morning. You have a meeting in five |
| 0:29.2 | minutes. You want to try getting out of bed? What do you reckon? It's actually a bit of a trick question. |
| 0:36.1 | Okay I'll put you out your misery. A is actually AI, right? So that's an artificially generated voice that sounds very like Scarlet Johanson, and B is the real |
| 0:47.3 | Scarlet Johanson but playing the operating system on a phone in the film Her. the car. It's because this is an actual news story today because Open AI, the huge big |
| 1:06.1 | artificial intelligence company run by Sam Altman, who are basically like partnered up with |
| 1:10.4 | Microsoft and even huge huge attack company, |
| 1:13.3 | released a new version of ChatGPT, their AI software. |
| 1:18.0 | And it had a speaking component where people |
| 1:21.0 | were scratching their heads going, |
| 1:22.2 | is that Scarlet Yourihansen or pretend |
| 1:24.3 | Scarlet Yihansen? And then all became clear because Scarlet Yihansen released a blistering |
| 1:29.5 | statement saying she was not happy with what had happened. But first of all we'll be catching up on |
| 1:35.2 | the latest in the inquiry into infected blood. |
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