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>> If you think they weren't trying to replicate sj's voice

Coevolution. The AI and the now-famous actor are the end products of a selection process aimed at a similar audience. The AI creators were likely aiming for the most attractive female voice, according to a bunch of young men. That parallels the process used by those casting action movies, which are also aimed at young men. It should be to nobody's great surprise that the end products of both share many features.

What is very odd is how similar celeb faces actually are. There really is a mathematical standard for beauty when it comes to female faces, which is why so many celebs are have eerily identical proportions. There is probably a model too for voices.

https://gotobeauty.com/plastic-surgery/how-math-shapes-moder...



> Coevolution. The AI and the now-famous actor are the end products of a selection process aimed at a similar audience

This might hold water if the actor weren't famous for more than a decade before the voice model existed


2003’s Lost In Translation opening scene would like a word.


If it’s coevolution, why did they try to hire Scarlett Johansson? Why not just stick to their guns that it’s “the most attractive female voice”?




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