Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, the "vibecession," plastic in our balls
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I just want to be clear here. I'm trying to do a docket, and we have to put the kibosh on this insanity of the soap opera that is becoming opening eye, Sax, because every week it's three, four, five stories. Have you seen what's happened this week? Yeah, of course. Got to catch the audience up here. Let's catch the audience up on what's happened here.
Wow.
Did that land me? Who made that? That was great. Did you make that? Yeah, that was me. 10 out of 10.
That was great.
That was my idea, but Nick's and Lon's execution.
So shout out to Warren Harris and Nick Calacanis. You finally landed the plane.
Broken clock's right twice a day. Took four years. That was awesome. A broken clock is right twice a day. The Jason Calacanis score. That's my winner by under.
Let your winners ride. Rain Man, David Sasson.
But seriously, there was a big drama, Sax. I don't know if you saw this, but you couldn't have missed it with the ScarJo. So they made an emergency, they had an emergency meeting, got all the developers together, and they've reset. They took Scarlett Johansson out, and they got a new person. I think arguably better. I'm free, Greg. I'm curious your take on this.
It's a better... Hey, Judge, how's it going?
Good, good. Yeah, good week. What's going on?
I'm doing fine. I'm going to be a father real soon. And I think I can have your help with some dad jokes. I'm going to tell you a joke and you tell me if it passes as a dad joke.
I've never done that before.
All right. What do you call a giant pile of kittens? Give it to me. A meownton.
No, it didn't quite land.
All right, there it is, folks. If you want, you can switch to Saxipoo. So just go into OpenAI. You're saying they stole my voice now? Yeah, they stole yours. Go into OpenAI, go to Voices, and then just pick Saxipoo. It's right there between Putin and Tucker. Putin, Saxipoo, Tucker. You can find all your favorite MAGA guests on the number one MAGA program. All in podcast. Here we go. All right, we're off to a strong start here. Everybody's in a good mood. Let's keep the good times rolling here. And let's go over the ScarJo saga. To recap, if you're living under a rock this week, It came out that OpenAI, specifically Sam, had contacted Scarlett Johansson multiple times about lending her voice for one of OpenAI's chat box.
Obviously, you know, she famously was the voice Samantha in the awesome film, Her. And according to ScarJo, Altman told her she could quote, bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI. and that her voice, quote, would be comforting to people. Although she declined the offer, OpenAI released a chatbot named Sky, which had a similar voice to ScarJo's. According to ScarJo, her friends and family thought the voice was her. She released a statement, yada, yada. On May 13th, the day OpenAI launched ChatGPT 4.0 Omni, which we talked about last week, Altman tweeted, her, a reference to the film. Obviously, now ScarJo is threatening legal action against OpenAI. Altman put out a statement apologizing and saying the voice was never intended to resemble hers. His quote, we're sorry to Miss Johansson that we didn't communicate better. OpenAI showed documents to the Washington Post that confirmed the voice was provided by a different actress who is anonymous.
Post reporters also spoke to the unnamed actress's agent who confirmed the story. I guess, Sax, you sent us a comparison clip. Maybe we start there and see what we think?
Yeah. Do you guys think they sound the same?
I can understand and generate human-like text pretty well. It really depends on what you're looking for in an assistant. What specific tasks?
When I was like, oh, sexuality, like, it opened my eyes to, like, some other thing. Samantha.
Where'd you get that name from?
I gave it to myself, actually. What do you think?
I think it sounds pretty darn similar. Dead on. I mean, I don't know if it's dead on. Honestly, it sounds like a digitally altered version of her voice. That's what it sounds like to me.
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