Board 8 > Meta celebrity chatbots

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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1707104615836090662

what

so wait, the actor's union is currently on strike (partly) because they want to make sure company's don't get to own their image forever, but these people just signed theirs over willingly?

well they aren't like, their exact likeness since they are each supposed to be characters

but like

Tom Brady is "sports guy"... skinned & voiced as Tom Brady

so wait, it's just an image in the top right corner, it doesn't actually have their voice or ever speak? it just smiles and nods?

and zendaya is meechee

... I didn't even consider that the voices might just be trailer, but hm yeah in the chat footage I don't see any mouths moving except to like frown or whatever

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-assistants-characters-and-creative-tools/

here's the post about it and ctrl+F "voice" is coming up empty

tho I like the character listings bolds the celebrity names just to underline the point that THIS IS MR BEAST! or whatever

wouldn't be surprised if they had voices implemented at some point. When they released that technology a few months back where you could have anybody saying anything with a minimal amount of voice samples loaded, and they really sounded good, like the Trump AI was even nailing his cadences and everything. Then that technology all got paywalled after like 2 days but still.... that's the future.

It gets old - AtheneAI on twitch is a wasteland with like 20 viewers.

this looks like garbage and thankfully nobody I like particularly had much respect for is involved

Are we obsessed enough with celebrities that this has a chance of carving out its own space against ChatGPT/Bard AI?

Maybe it was just the trailer, but I didn't get much of an impression for functionality beyond talking with an AI that speaks in the style of a celebrity. What is this product supposed to do?