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Meta courts celebs like Awkwafina to voice AI assistants ahead of Meta Connect
Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key are apparently also in talks.
Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key, and Awkwafina are among multiple “actors and influencers” whose voices could become part of Meta’s AI offering, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Generative AI, though, has proven undeniably better for mimicking an actual human voice, as in OpenAI’s GPT-4o demo of a chatbot that sounded startlingly similar to Scarlett Johansson(which she wasn’t exactly happy about). I like that she would be paid a negotiated fee for it, and plus, when it , I can just pretend the voice is actually supposed to be M, Dench’s James Bond spy chief, trying to throw me off the trail.
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