David Farnell: And the other AI voice chatbots are also going to use female voices. Once again, your "personal assistant" (imaginary slave) is going to be a woman by default.

color me shocked that a company building a product based on other people’s work would have acted this way.

OpenAI pulls AI voice that was compared to Scarlett Johansson in the movie 'Her'www.npr.org The AI company said the voice was not patterned after Johansson, but that it was removing the voice as an option in the wake of speculation about whether the sci-fi film inspired the voice.

And the other AI voice chatbots are also going to use female voices. Once again, your "personal assistant" (imaginary slave) is going to be a woman by default.

And your personal assistant/chatbot-slave's voice will probably be the *stolen* voice of a woman, which is just extra-ironic.

Always set your Siri to butler mode (male, British)

I guess I would if I ever used Siri. I tried it a couple times back in the day and then just never had any reason to use it.

I think yelling at British men is a reason unto itself.

I remember resetting it to Australian Man just for laughs, but it wasn't as funny as I had hoped. No slang. This is reminding me of when my Malaysian friend had her Waze app set to have the voices of a couple of cute cheeky Malaysian kids speaking Manglish and making fun of the driver for speeding.

The sad part is, my old marketing classes in high school called it 20y ago. Female voices are easier to use, cause generally more accepted by both sexes in the west. Or somethinglike that.

I remember that, but I have long wondered to what extent it's instinct (which is how they've always made it sound in those classes) vs it just being societal conditioning--which, in continuing to use women's voices with the excuse of it being instinct, we're just reinforcing the conditioning.

Oh, it absolutely is conditioning, and if you get a honest a honest teacher, they won't even deny it. Hence why there's a clear distinction between Western markets in first place.

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