This zombie Dame Judi is coming soon to everyone's Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp as a voice for Meta AI. The chatbot, which is hard to avoid, already answers questions, gives advice and makes pictures. To make using it feel more comfortable, Meta is now adding the ability to talk with it - including in the voices of Dench and fellow actors Awkwafina, John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key and Kristen Bell.
But it also feels like a wrong turn for our human relationships with the tech. Celebrities are people we have relationships with, even if it's one-sided. So of course my first question for the Dench-voice AI was about James Bond, whose boss Dench played in eight 007 films.
Bringing the voices of real living celebrities to a chatbot already used by 400 million people each month is a big deal for the future of AI.
Meta says it paid the actors behind its AI voices an undisclosed sum for the rights to use their voices for multiple years. Rival ChatGPT stirred up a controversy earlier this year because it featured a voice that sounded a bit like Scarlett Johansson.
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