#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#BigTech#SiliconValley: "Company documents obtained by Vox with signatures from Altman and Kwon complicate their claim that the clawback provisions were something they hadn’t known about. A separation letter on the termination documents, which you can read embedded below, says in plain language, “If you have any vested Units ... you are required to sign a release of claims agreement within 60 days in order to retain such Units.” It is signed by Kwon, along with OpenAI VP of people Diane Yoon (who departed OpenAI recently). The secret ultra-restrictive NDA, signed for only the “consideration” of already vested equity, is signed by COO Brad Lightcap.
Meanwhile, according to documents provided to Vox by ex-employees, the incorporation documents for the holding company that handles equity in OpenAI contains multiple passages with language that gives the company near-arbitrary authority to claw back equity from former employees or — just as importantly — block them from selling it.
Those incorporation documents were signed on April 10, 2023, by Sam Altman in his capacity as CEO of OpenAI."
»The fact that they reached out to her to collaborate is another stunning demonstration of the profound lack of cultural literacy and like social intuition these AI people have. The film is this very moving and complex but crucially UNSETTLING and SAD story and the fact that those associations would sail completely over their head and they’d just go “yooo we got #Her from Her” is so on brand for these AI dorks«
“If you’re looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley’s latest gold rush, look no further than #OpenAI’s #ScarlettJohansson debacle”
Another OpenAI employee announced she quit over safety concerns hours before two exec resigned
"She added that more needs to be done to improve "decision-making processes; accountability; transparency; documentation; policy enforcement; the care with which we use our own technology; and mitigations for impacts on inequality, rights, and the environment.""
Pure serendipity that I finally decided to watch "Lost In Translation" for the first time, been in my queue for weeks, the same week that OpenAI decided to steal Scarlett Johansson's voice for their Her-inspired voice system. #movies#OpenAI 2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola
May 22 (Reuters) - Sam Altman-led #OpenAI has signed a deal to bring News Corp's news content to the #ArtificialIntelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. #journalism
"There’s standard Silicon Valley hubris in the ‘move fast and break things’ mold, and then there’s whatever this is
"Trying to steamroll one of the most famous movie stars alive, one who is notably not afraid to take Disney to court (and win), and then lying to everyone about it ... well that’s another level altogether.”
He puts into clear terms what had previously been an unarticulated, creeping suspicion I had about #GenAI. Clearly there are many angles from which to come at what's going on with #AI#hype , but I appreciate this one quite a bit.
Earlier this week, Scarlett Johansson released a statement that said she had been approached by OpenAI’s founder Sam Altman to voice a ChatGPT persona. The actress, who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film "Her," she said no, but OpenAI went ahead and released "Sky" anyway — a chatbot which Johansson herself stated sounded “eerily similar” to her.
The actress has hired legal counsel and demanded an explanation, but could she take it further and does she have a case? @WIRED has spoken to lawyers to find out how this could all play out in court.
An ad agency I was once associated with ran radio ads in the early 2000s that used a Donald Sutherland sound-alike — and he was really good. Some voice-over guy in Toronto or Vancouver who basically made a living doing this impersonation.