The case of OpenAI's alleged plagiarism of Scarlett Johansson's flesh-and-blood voice is problematic, but even more problematic is the tendency of Japanese AI startups to adopt too many images of young women in their representations of AI.
When I was a graduate student, I was particularly fed up with this trend.
How many male robotics engineers adopt the appearance of young women and beautiful girls as representations of their robots and proudly say, "Behold, this is my work!"
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