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Re:15.ai by hojjat12000 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:47PM (#31717128)
They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?
Re:15.ai by neilv on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:41PM (#31719340)
I came back to the HN comments to ask the same thing, when I saw that.

I think this is kinda edgy humor that can work in small, select groups.

But maybe in most contexts in which people will be looking at AI method tech demos (e.g., within a company, or researchers at a university), we're still feeling ongoing effects of multi-generational injustices. In such a context, no one wants to be associating to ideas of women around some infamous '70s porn film. Doing that, and making light of it, seems like it'd rightly bother a lot of people.

When you're focused on a project, and maybe first discussing/showing in one small group, it can be easy to forget there are many additional things going on outside that group, some of which we also want to consider. I've made that mistake multiple times, including with the wrong humor for a context, still cringe when I think of instances of it, and this looks like that to me.

Maybe the developer will see this discussion, and decide to change some things, ASAP. It might still be relatively easy to change. (Maybe doable before Monday business hours, in the time zone of the university mentioned prominently.)

Re:15.ai by alexb_ on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:42AM (#31721227)
Imagine being so uptight that you see a harmless joke, get mad about it, make many assumptions about a person that you've never met, and not only tell them to change it but give them a deadline to do so.
Re:15.ai by xdennis on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:51PM (#31717167)
Re:15.ai by droidist2 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:30PM (#31718473)
Which itself was a reference to the pornographic film of the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(film)

Re:15.ai by cal85 on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:56AM (#31722125)
Re:15.ai by mgdlbp on Sunday June 12, 2022 @04:55PM (#31718167)
to the DeepFoo pattern in deep learning naming, more likely.
Re:15.ai by BeFlatXIII on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:06PM (#31718276)
Why not both at once?
Re:15.ai by mgdlbp on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:33PM (#31719282)
Sill nothing to top 'DeepCreamPy' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737049
Re:15.ai by mgdlbp on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:13PM (#31728457)
All six contiguous subsequences of the three tokens have meaning:

- Deep, because it's deep-learning based

- Cream, referring to its pornographic application

- Py, as it's written in Python

- DeepCream is close to DeepDream

- CreamPy is homophonic to creampie

- As a whole, homophonous to deep creampie, a meaningful pairing of noun and adjective

Re:15.ai by quenix on Sunday June 12, 2022 @04:11PM (#31717845)
Perhaps as a joke?
Re:15.ai by userbinator on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:35PM (#31718502)
Relatedly, a speech synth (or rather, the "output" part) that has appeared on HN before is named the Pink Trombone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628

Re:15.ai by 15ai on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:28AM (#31721123)
It was a suggestion from a Twitter user, and I found it clever.
Re:15.ai by Akronymus on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:50AM (#31722476)
I am just gonna take this oppurtunity to say: THANK YOU. For your work on the site and the joy it brings. And thank you for not censoring input. Your site is simply the best out there for making characters voice copypastas and such.
Re:15.ai by layer8 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:55PM (#31718658)
Maybe they’re seeing a need for text-to-speech in the porn market?
Re:15.ai by Bytewave81 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:49PM (#31717140)
They knew.
Re:15.ai by latenightcoding on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:50PM (#31717148)
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