Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is gearing up to announce that its AI chatbot will reportedly be able to mimic the voices of celebrities such as Judi Dench, John Cena, and others.
What Happened: Meta has secured agreements with several actors, including Dench, Kristen Bell, and Cena, to voice its AI chatbot, reported Reuters, citing a source familiar with the plans.
This new audio feature will enable users to choose a voice for Meta's digital assistant from a list of five celebrities, which also includes Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key, in addition to several generic voice options.
The social media behemoth plans to unveil these audio capabilities at its annual Connect conference, which kicks off on Wednesday.
The celebrity voices will start rolling out in the U.S. and other English-speaking markets this week across Meta's suite of apps, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Meta is also anticipated to reveal the first iteration of its augmented-reality glasses at the Connect conference this year.
The company has been striving to launch generative artificial intelligence products to its billions of users, vying against ChatGPT-parent OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a promotional video featuring Cena on Instagram last week, showing the two men and several others engaging in stunts while wearing the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
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ScreenshotWhy It Matters: This latest development by Meta comes in the wake of a controversy involving OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson, where the actress accused the AI company of using a voice modeled after hers without consent.
This incident highlighted the need for regulations to protect artists and creators from being exploited by AI tools.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founder of xAI, also criticized OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015 but later parted ways with, for replicating the actor's voice.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or SAG-AFTRA also supported Johansson in her dispute with OpenAI.
The use of AI to replace voice actors and creators was a central topic of debate during last year's writers' strike in Hollywood.
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通過人工智能模仿聲音的元平台公司（納斯達克：納斯達克）即將宣佈，其 AI 聊天機器人據稱可以模仿茱蒂·登奇（Judi Dench）、約翰·塞納（John Cena）等名人的聲音。
事件經過：據路透社援引熟悉計劃的消息人士報道，meta已與多位演員達成協議，包括登奇、克里斯汀·貝爾（Kristen Bell）和塞納，來爲其 AI 聊天機器人配音。
這一新的音頻功能將使用戶能夠從五位名人中選擇元平台數字助手的聲音，其中還包括 Awkwafina 和 Keegan-Michael Key ，此外還提供了幾種通用的聲音選項。
這家社交媒體巨頭計劃在於本週三開始的年度 Connect 大會上發佈這些音頻功能。
名人的聲音將從這周開始在美國和其他講英語的市場上陸續在包括 Facebook、Instagram 和 WhatsApp 在內的 meta 應用中推出。
據預期，元平台還將在今年的 Connect 大會上公佈其增強現實眼鏡的第一個版本。
該公司一直在努力向其數十億用戶推出生成式人工智能產品，與 ChatGPt 概念股的 OpenAI 和 alphabet inc 的谷歌展開競爭。
上週，Meta CEO馬克·扎克伯格在Instagram上發佈了一個宣傳視頻，展示了兩位男士和其他一些人戴着Ray-Ban Meta眼鏡進行特技表演。
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截圖 爲什麼重要：Meta的最新進展出現在OpenAI和斯嘉麗·約翰遜之間的一場爭議之後，在這場爭議中，這位女演員指責人工智能公司未經她許可使用了一個模仿她聲音的AI。
這一事件突顯了保護藝術家和創作者免受人工智能工具剝削的法規的必要性。
特斯拉和spacex(臨時代碼)首席執行官、xAI創始人埃隆·馬斯克也批評了2015年與之共同創立但後來分道揚鑣的OpenAI，指責該公司複製了這位演員的聲音。
美國電視和廣播藝術家工會和美國演員工會（SAG-AFTRA）也支持約翰遜在與OpenAI的爭議中。
去年好萊塢編劇罷工期間，利用人工智能取代配音演員和創作者的討論是爭論的中心話題。
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