How much would Meta have to pay you to clone your voice for AI?<\/p>\n
Meta is offering to pay celebrities millions in exchange for the right to capture their voices and use them for AI, according to separate reports from Bloomberg<\/a> and The New York Times<\/a> last week. Judi Dench, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key have all reportedly been asked to be used for an AI chatbot or other unspecified AI product.<\/p>\n Related: <\/b>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says Mark Zuckerberg’s Vision for the Future of AI Is a ‘Home Run Idea’<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Insiders say that Meta is on a time crunch to secure the celebs needed as it looks ahead to its September Connect 2024<\/a> event. Last year’s event<\/a> featured AI chatbots with recognizable faces, including Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, and Paris Hilton. Meta reportedly paid those celebrities<\/a> millions of dollars to use their likenesses but stopped the project last week<\/a> after the AI chatbots failed to gain traction on social media in the year since they debuted.<\/p>\n Snoop Dogg’s “Dungeon Master” Meta AI character, for example, only had 15,000 followers. Kendall Jenner’s “Billie” AI older sister reached 118,000 followers<\/a> on Instagram. Celebrity voice cloning has been under the spotlight this year after Meta competitor OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, demoed GPT-4o<\/a> in May and the AI chatbot sounded “eerily similar<\/a>” to Scarlett Johansson. Johansson noticed the similarity, hired legal counsel<\/a>, and OpenAI took down the voice.<\/p>\n Related: <\/b>Can ChatGPT Help Start a Business? I Tried the Latest Version, GPT-4o, to Find Out.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Meta’s AI strategy seems to be less of a one-stop chatbot like ChatGPT and more of a community of AI chatbots with tailored purposes.<\/p>\n Last month, for example, Meta released a new AI studio that allows anyone to make an AI bot that they can talk to. Some popular AI characters in the studio now are therapist coach Luna<\/a> and Career Catalyst<\/a>, a bot to talk to about careers.<\/p>\n “It’s all part of this bigger view we have that there shouldn’t just be one big AI,” Zuckerberg said last week<\/a> at the 2024 SIGGRAPH conference. “We just think that the world will be better and more interesting if there’s a diversity of these different things.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.entrepreneur.com\/images\/misc\/1723146616_Judi-Dench-GettyImages-1431999484.jpg?width=1000\")
Judi Dench. Photo by John Phillips\/Getty Images for BFI<\/sup><\/i><\/p>\n