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☆ Meta's chatbot could soon sound like John Cena or Judi Dench — but definitely not OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson soundalike
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Meta will use actors including John Cena and Judi Dench to voice its AI chatbot, Reuters reported. The tech giant appears to be avoiding the mistake OpenAI made with its ChatGPT celebrity soundalike. OpenAI launched an AI chatbot that sounded like Scarlett Johansson — but she didn't voice it. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy .

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☆ Instagram really wants everyone to start using its shiny new AI tools. Will you?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Sydney Bradley | Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewHey, everyone: Instagram really wants you to start using its AI tools. Related storiesThe AI Studio product will let creators make their own AI-powered characters in the app. Meanwhile, on the ground in Anaheim, CA, Instagram is showcasing its AI features at the creator economy's biggest event. Many of Instagram's AI tools are accessible within the DM feature, such as stickers in chat and the creator chatbots. "If you look at Instagram, DMs is one of the fastest growing parts of the system," Zuckerberg said on the "Blueprint" podcast.

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☆ Meta's AI chatbot says it was trained on millions of YouTube videos. Meta didn't deny it but said the bot could be inaccurate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Meta AI chatbot is more willing to share what data it was trained on than Meta is. It expanded Meta AI in April as a chat and image generator function across all its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta AI told Business Insider that it was trained on large datasets of transcriptions from YouTube videos. Meta AI initially said its training data included a third-party dataset of 3.7 million transcribed YouTube videos. In responding to further queries about its YouTube training data, Meta AI said its training data included another, larger dataset of transcriptions from 6 million YouTube videos also compiled by a third party.

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☆ Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta unveiled its AI assistant feature last month, featuring celebrities' likenesses. One unnamed top creator was paid $5 million for six hours of work, according to The Information. Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the AI assistants during the company's Connect event last month. Right now, the AI assistants are only text-based but Meta's announcement video featured clips of the celebrities speaking as their AI counterparts. At the same time as its AI assistants, Meta also launched AI stickers.

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