# Breaking News in AI **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** computer-hardware, ai\ **Created:** [May 23, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939 "2024-05-23T02:43:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/1 "2024-05-23T02:43:25Z")
Two stories involving AI deserve comment (outside of being mentioned and ignored in a pit thread). The first is OpenAI coming up with a voice allegedly remarkably similar to Scarlett Johansson after she was twice approached by Altman. The second story are laws that may regulate AI in the European Union, and so may influence other places. Limited gift links are provided. I have not heard the voice, and cannot comment in the process actually used to obtain it. Technology always moves faster than regulatory efforts. Yet Europe, for better or worse, seems to be more zealous than other regions in focusing on limits. The question of whether lawmakers are well informed about these issues is a different consideration. > **[Opinion | Scarlett Johansson’s ChatGPT face-off confirms our fears about AI](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/22/scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-altman-ai-sky-her/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE2MzUwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE3NzMyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTYzNTA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImE1YTdjY2I3LWUyYWMtNGM4OS04ZWMyLTU3MDYzYTJkNDBlYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzA1LzIyL3NjYXJsZXR0LWpvaGFuc3Nvbi1jaGF0Z3B0LWFsdG1hbi1haS1za3ktaGVyLyJ9.KojOAg4In9duzvdoz5_6tFTV1N-h6kVrPPj3Rkl6FRk&itid=gfta)** > > We’re trusting tech companies with the very thing that makes us human. > **[Europe sets potential benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2c74378c75ce69f3bd05148883e9aa787edbcaa15de44e8517335ccc76bfb73e/7XKOBLUYKBDDJNCCWCI2FUA5VA/)** > > The rules on AI will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/2 "2024-05-23T02:48:25Z")
Breaking-er news on the ScarJo angle: > **[OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/)** > > A different actress was hired to voice OpenAI’s “Sky” months before CEO Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson, according to documents and the actress’s agent. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/3 "2024-05-23T02:57:22Z")
It is fair to say the comments in that article express a degree of skepticism. But I have not heard the voice. This may not matter if the intention was to make a similar voice, as with Bette Midler and a 1980s Ford commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/4 "2024-05-23T03:02:29Z")
I think the voice in this video (starting around 10 minutes in) is Sky, but it doesn’t explicitly say. > **[ChatGPT GPT-4o just nailed the live demo that Google had to fake for Gemini](https://bgr.com/tech/chatgpt-gpt-4o-just-nailed-the-live-demo-that-google-had-to-fake-for-gemini/)** > > OpenAI's live demo of ChatGPT's GPT-4o multimodal powers looks a lot like Google's early Gemini demo. But, unlike Google, it's not fake. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/5 "2024-05-23T14:08:30Z")
I was so hoping the “different actress” would turn out to be Samantha Morton. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/6 "2024-05-23T15:37:35Z")
I was hoping it wouldn’t be Fran Drescher. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/7 "2024-05-23T15:49:34Z")
**Excerpt, _The Globe_, 2nd article in first post** _Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life._ _The European Union’s AI Act is more comprehensive than the United States’ light-touch voluntary compliance approach while China’s approach aims to maintain social stability and state control._ _…Concerns about AI contributing to misinformation, fake news and copyrighted material have intensified globally in recent months amid the growing popularity of generative AI systems such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s chatbot Gemini._ _…“With the AI Act, Europe emphasizes the importance of trust, transparency and accountability when dealing with new technologies while at the same time ensuring this fast-changing technology can flourish and boost European innovation,” [said some suit]._ _The AI Act imposes strict transparency obligations on high-risk AI systems while such requirements for general-purpose AI models will be lighter._ _It restricts governments’ use of real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces to cases of certain crimes, prevention of terrorist attacks and searches for people suspected of the most serious crimes._ _The new legislation will have an impact beyond the 27-country bloc… [said some lawyer]….Other countries and regions are likely to use the AI Act as a blueprint, just as they did with the GDPR,” he said, referring to EU privacy rules._ _While the new legislation will apply in 2026, bans on the use of artificial intelligence in social scoring, predictive policing and untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage will kick in six months once the new regulation enters into force._ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/8 "2024-05-23T17:45:09Z")
More on the _Her_ star’s case: [Why Can't OpenAI Make ChatGPT Sound Like Scarlett Johansson? - Above the Law](https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-openai-copycat-voice/?utm_campaign=Above%20the%20Law%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--QqptOBzJrPv8lCnIDlM7U0bX8XQwSqnOsB295NxPI1IKBbNI5oWcfwhCbsruJTBzSyxnLqYAwZm9wDMqiA_CKW4rUpQ&_hsmi=308204757&utm_content=308204757&utm_source=hs_email) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/9 "2024-05-23T19:14:47Z")
I am confused as to how “strict transparency” can apply to AI, by definition. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/10 "2024-05-25T06:09:08Z")
Remember the old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”? Well AI can provide the kinds of health recommendations that so many people have missed who don’t ask questions to the AI sites: > How many rocks should I eat each day? [Daniel Nazer: "This one from Ben Collins over on the bird hell s…" - Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@danielnazer/112492966707079287#). ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/11 "2024-05-28T00:08:10Z")
Well it turns out people have found the high quality source Google might have used for this result: > Asked “how many rocks should I eat each day,” Overview said that geologists recommend eating “at least one small rock a day.” That language was of course pulled almost word-for-word from a 2021 _Onion_ headline. Another search, “what color highlighters do the CIA use,” prompted Overview to answer “black,” which was an _Onion_ joke from 2005. > **[Great Job, Internet: Google’s AI feeds people answers from The Onion](https://www.avclub.com/google-s-ai-feeds-answers-from-the-onion-1851500362)** > > Google's new AI Overview has encouraged people to eat rocks, glue their pizza, and other incredibly stupid results ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939/12 "2024-05-28T03:22:12Z")
That’s hilarious.