So it was with trepidation that I checked out Meta’s crop of stars-in-your-eyeglasses.
Heres a step-by-step:
bring up the Meta View app on your phone.
Click Language and Voice.
Make your celebrity selection, then hit save on the top right.
Once they’re installed, your glasses work exactly as they did before.
Do Meta AI’s celebrity voices really sound like celebrities?
She got all of them wrong.
She was sure John Cena was Jon Hamm, and thought Awkwafina might be an NPR host.
Some celebrities are just better AI subjects than others.
Here are my ratings, in order of least to most annoying.
Awkwafina:AIAwkwafinas medium pitch and natural-sounding inflections sound the least like a computer.
I made her voice my default.
Verdict: not annoying.
Verdict: a little annoying.
Verdict: very annoying.
What if youwantyour Meta glasses to have the personality of a celebrity?
Tell me a story using the personality of Awkwafina."
This gave me the “why would anyonewant this?”
Verdict: annoyingly hip, and doesn’t even make sense.
AI Cena calls you brother a lot and seems to only talk about wrestling and himself as a hero.
Verdict: annoyingly egoistical.
Verdict: annoyingly unrealistic story.
AI Keys stories all have urban prefs, and usually involve Key cattily commenting on someone else being lame.
He’s always hanging out at coffeeshops and parks.
Verdict: Annoyingly judgy.
