AI wants our stuff. It can back right off

Meta wants to start mining public Instagram and Facebook posts. That’s a bad sign for the health of AI

Nicole Kobie is PC Pro’s futures editor. Yes, she knows she should just delete her Facebook and Instagram accounts. And her Google one. And go live under a rock or something. @njkobie OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o in May with advanced voice systems that sound more natural. To many people, it sounded like actress Scarlett Johansson, in particular her portrayal of an AI in the film Her. That feeling was encouraged by CEO Sam Altman tweeting the word “her” at the time of the launch. Then the actress revealed she was contacted by the company a year ago to voice the AI assistant, but declined. OpenAI says there was no intent for the “Sky” voice, as it’s known, to sound like ScarJo, and posted a blog detailing its timeline of actor auditions to prove it.…

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