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1. msoad+f1[view] [source] 2024-05-20 06:51:51
>>saliag+(OP)
Berlin famously casted a gender neutral voice for public transport announcements. It would be nice if OpenAI would have done that too. At least for one of the options. Computers better not have genders imo
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2. iLoveO+p1[view] [source] 2024-05-20 06:54:15
>>msoad+f1
Why?
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3. thomas+e2[view] [source] 2024-05-20 07:04:24
>>iLoveO+p1
Because assigning genders to computers makes as much sense as giving your toaster a name, it’s 2024, so why not keep the gender out of it?

The why question is easily answered if you see how many negative reactions their choice of voice caused. A gender-neutral voice would have just avoided annoying a certain percentage of the population, including me.

I'm happy if advertising stops hitting the sexy/cliched stereotypes.

Sometimes the Guardian goes a bit far but OpenAI could have avoided this kind of article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/1...

(Edit: I guess I was being slightly inflammatory with my first sentence. I think the default voice should be gender-neutral and then let the user choose what makes them happy. I don't think it was clever of OpenAI to use a sexy female as the default voice in their demos as evidenced by us having this discussion)

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4. iLoveO+hc[view] [source] 2024-05-20 09:16:28
>>thomas+e2
> A gender-neutral voice would have just avoided annoying a certain percentage of the population, including me.

How do you manage to be annoyed when they offer both male and female voices?

I think you're the problem here buddy.

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5. thomas+DP[view] [source] 2024-05-20 14:46:35
>>iLoveO+hc
I was referring to the default being a sexy female. Maybe it makes sense because the majority of users are male but I guess that's what I'd like to see change.
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6. iLoveO+rW[view] [source] 2024-05-20 15:21:10
>>thomas+DP
I recommend you actually try it. While it sounded like this in the demo, it's not actually the default in the app.

The default sounds gender-neutral to me, or at least not very feminine, and it matches your tone, so it's "sexy" if you're being "sexy".

That said I think we all agree the demo was awful.

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7. thomas+Rj1[view] [source] 2024-05-20 17:40:55
>>iLoveO+rW
Totally. I may have gone a bit far in my wording, but what irritated me was the cringy demos, not the actual app.

I basically spend more time talking to ChatGPT than humans these days when I'm not on holiday. I'm in no way opposed to it.

I don't know why, but I always end up going down the devil's advocate route without even realizing it. And then I find myself arguing positions that I don't even agree with. But it's interesting.

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