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by mc32 754 days ago
What’s unsafe about an AI having a voice? Is it due to someone being duped into thinking the voice is a person’s?
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I think the point was what kind of voice.
Yes, specifically it seemed like OpenAI was actively encouraging people (men) to have fake personal relationships with a chatbot. I am wondering if Sam Altman gave up on the idea that transformers can ever be general-purpose problem solvers[1] and is pivoting to the creepy character.ai market.

[1] They are “general purpose” but not at all “problem solvers” https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638

That’s a good point. I suppose they could make people co-dependent on the chatbot and even have them do unethical things.