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Interview with gwern

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308 points synthmeat | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 08:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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sourcepluck ◴[14 Nov 24 12:24 UTC] No.42135548[source]▶
I clicked on the video asking myself, wait, how does the title make sense, how is he anonymous if he's doing videos?

Then when I saw the frankly very creepy and offputting image and voice, thinking he'd been anonymised through some AI software, thought, oh no, this kind of thing isn't going to become normal is it.

Then - plot twist - I scroll down to read the description and see that that voice is an actual human voiceover! I don't know if that makes it more or less creepy. Probably more. What a strange timeline.

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1. indoordin0saur ◴[14 Nov 24 15:50 UTC] No.42137407[source]▶
Ah, that was a human voice over? I really wish they hadn't done the voice thing as I found it distracting. The emotion felt all off and misleading. I guess it's better than an AI voice at least but a traditional voice mask would have been better IMO
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2. sourcepluck ◴[14 Nov 24 16:54 UTC] No.42138133[source]▶
Yes, someone called "Chris Painter", who could easily be a nice person, I suppose. Maybe the generic U.S. "non-offensive" male A.I. accent is based off his voice originally, and we're coming full circle?
3. Vecr ◴[14 Nov 24 16:59 UTC] No.42138202[source]▶
He's Gwern, he knows that wouldn't provide what he wants.