Meta May Pay Celebrities Hundreds of thousands to AI Clone Their Voices

How a lot would Meta need to pay you to clone your voice for AI?

Meta is providing to pay celebrities hundreds of thousands in trade for the proper to seize their voices and use them for AI, in keeping with separate reviews from Bloomberg and The New York Occasions final week. Judi Dench, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key have all reportedly been requested for use for an AI chatbot or different unspecified AI product.

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Insiders say that Meta is on a time crunch to safe the celebs wanted because it appears to be like forward to its September Join 2024 occasion. Final 12 months’s occasion featured AI chatbots with recognizable faces, together with Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, and Paris Hilton. Meta reportedly paid these celebrities hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to make use of their likenesses however stopped the challenge final week after the AI chatbots failed to realize traction on social media within the 12 months since they debuted.

Snoop Dogg’s “Dungeon Grasp” Meta AI character, for instance, solely had 15,000 followers. Kendall Jenner’s “Billie” AI older sister reached 118,000 followers on Instagram. ^{Judi Dench. Photograph by John Phillips/Getty Photos for BFI}

Movie star voice cloning has been beneath the highlight this 12 months after Meta competitor OpenAI, the corporate behind ChatGPT, demoed GPT-4o in Could and the AI chatbot sounded “eerily related” to Scarlett Johansson. Johansson observed the similarity, employed authorized counsel, and OpenAI took down the voice.

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Meta’s AI technique appears to be much less of a one-stop chatbot like ChatGPT and extra of a neighborhood of AI chatbots with tailor-made functions.

Final month, for instance, Meta launched a brand new AI studio that permits anybody to make an AI bot that they’ll speak to. Some well-liked AI characters within the studio now are therapist coach Luna and Profession Catalyst, a bot to speak to about careers.

“It is all a part of this larger view we now have that there should not simply be one massive AI,” Zuckerberg mentioned final week on the 2024 SIGGRAPH convention. “We simply suppose that the world can be higher and extra fascinating if there is a variety of those various things.”