Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects

In accordance with Bloomberg and The New York Instances, Meta is in talks with the likes of Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina and Dame Judi Dench, amongst others, for its AI tasks. The corporate apparently intends to incorporate their voices into a conversational generative AI-slash-digital assistant referred to as MetaAI, which is rumored to be like Siri and Google Assistant, which might dwell inside Fb, Meta {hardware}, and all the opposite components of the multimillion-dollar social community firm.

The actors’ representatives are nonetheless negotiating for stricter limits, although SAG-AFTRA has reportedly agreed on phrases with Meta. SAG-AFTRA, in the event you recall, fought for provisions to guard actors from the specter of job loss attributable to AI.

Didn’t Meta already do one thing like this? Sure. Throughout its Join occasion final 12 months, the corporate additionally launched with 28 “characters” voiced by celebrities, together with Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Dwyane Wade and Kendall Jenner. Nonetheless, these superstar chatbots’ pages have since disappeared, and The Info studies that Meta has simply quietly scrapped that challenge.

This seems to be extra central to Meta’s AI ambitions.

— Mat Smith

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After 33 years.

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