Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, May 20th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

No, that Chechy Pete voice is not Scarlet Johanson. Stop asking.

In fact, that voice is going away.

What does it mean if Open AI's entire Super Alignment team has gone away?

Is Apple News Plus the partner publishers have been waiting for.

And if you want to be a digital

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This is a controversy we didn't even get a chance to talk about but Open AI has

pooled chat geepties Sky Voice which users complained sounded like Scarlet Johanson from that movie

Her quoting Bloomberg. The company said that the voice one of five available on

Chatchy BT was from an actress and was not chosen to be an imitation of Johanson according to a blog post.

Johanson played a fictional virtual assistant in the film Her about a man who falls

in love with an AI system, end quote.

And then here's a discussion of the original controversy from the New York Times.

Samantha, the AI voice with whom the Sad Sack divorcee, Theodore Twombly,

Waukein Phoenix fell in love with in her, felt like a futuristic revelation.

Voiced by Scarlet Johanson, Samantha was similar to Siri, if Siri liked you and wanted

you to like her back.

She was programmed to mold herself around the individual user's preferences, interests and ideas. She was Wighty and Sweet and She was witty and sweet and quite literally tireless.

It was thus a tad jarring to hear the voice of the virtual assistant

in last week's announcement of the newest version of

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