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If you press the button to read the article to you all you hear is “object, object, object…”


Yeah, a 5 second clip of the word "Object" being inflected like it's actually speaking.

But also it ends with "...object ject".

When you inspect the network traffic, it's pulling down 6 .mp3 files which contain fragments of the clip.

And it seems like the feature's broken for the whole site. The Lowes[1] press release is particularly good.

Pretty interesting peek behind the curtain.

1: https://openai.com/index/lowes/


Thank you! I have preserved this precious cultural artifact:

https://archive.org/details/object-object

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/ObjectObject.mp4

Original mp4 files available for remixing:

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/ObjectObject.zip

>Pretty interesting peek behind the curtain.

It's objects all the way down!


It's especially funny if you play the audio MP3 file and the video presentation at the same time - the "Object" narration almost lines up with the products being presented.

It's like a hilariously vague version of Pictionary.


Sounds like someone had an off by one error in their array slicing and passed the wrong thing into the voice to text!




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