The Daily Friday: Wednesday 5/22

1. Hims and Hers announces new weight-loss shot that’s 85% cheaper than Ozempic. Cool, but I’ll just stick to my Zyns. Only weight loss drug I need.

2. Biden administration cancels student debt for another 160k people. Can you guys do Flyboard debt next? Forgot I can’t swim, am afraid of heights and also have no money at all. Bad investment.

3. 50 Cent sells Diddy documentary to Netflix after massive bidding war for project called Diddy Do It? after ongoing beef with rapper. Remind me never to cross 50 Cent by the way. Sometimes I forget.

4. NBA set to formalize deals with Disney, Amazon and NBC this week, meaning next season will be the last for TNT’s Inside the NBA. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

5. Scarlett Johansson is beefing with OpenAI. LET’S BREAK IT DOWN.

SCAR-JO VS. OPENAI

I feel like Sam Altman and I had very different readings of the movie Her.

Scarlett Johansson is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for copying her voice in ChatGPT’s latest voice model release after she specifically did not grant permission to do so.

LET’S BREAK IT DOWN.

• Johansson claims that 9 months ago, Sam Altman asked for her permission to use her voice for a ChatGPT voice model. Altman cited his love for the movie Her and the character Johansson voiced, an AI assistant that Joaquinn Phoenix falls in love with. Scarlett declined, which makes sense. Kind of a creepy move pal.

• Last week, OpenAi released ‘Voice Mode,’ a new feature on its ChatGPT, where an AI assistant answers your questions verbally. Surprise, surprise: one of the voice options sounds exactly like Scarlett Johansson’s character in Her. This is the exact move I’d use in high school with my parents: ask for permission, get told no, do it anyways and deal with the consequences. Always went terribly.

• As if that wasn’t brazen enough, Altman tweeted “her” to announce the release, an obvious reference to the movie and Scarlett Johansson. Maybe I’m crazy, but is this really the best way to promote that feature anyways? Personally did not walk away from Her thinking “oh yeah I want to fall in love with a computer now.”

• In response, her team has sent two letters to the company and filed a lawsuit, and OpenAI removed the voice while claiming it was from one of 400 voice actors they auditioned, not Johansson. This adds more drama to a year filled with headlines.

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NBA: Celtics escape with Game 1 win after Jaylen Brown gets a rare Mike Breen double-bang after Tyrese Haliburton literally threw the game away. Celtics in 5, book it.

Lamelo Ball is being sued for allegedly running over a child’s foot with his car at a fan event. Anyone who’s seen him drive knows that he absolutely did it.

NHL: The conference finals are set and the Empty Netters are here with all the predictions you need. They’ve never been wrong, so why start now?

WNBA: Cameron Brink was so hot that Shohei Ohtani learned how to speak English. Can you blame him? I want her to burp me like a baby sooo badly.

NFL: League will test out optical tracking devices to measure first downs during the preseason. Another union job taken by machines. Smdh.

MLB: Phillies’ Ranger Suarez becomes the first pitcher to start a season 9-0 with a sub 1.50 ERA since Juan Marichal in 1966. We hadn’t staged the moon landing yet. Crazy.

Shoutout to the girl who got ROCKED in the dome by a 110 mph foul ball and got a Topps trading card out of it. Worth it.

WHAT ELSE IS GOOD

Kobayashi, 6x hot dog eating champion, retires from competitive eating, says he ‘lost his appetite and ability to smell food.’ That’d be like if Lebron ever lost his ability to flop and blame his teammates after losses. Time to hang it up.

Miller drops the new Big Green Kegg, just in time for you to have the best summer ever. This will fit perfectly in my one bedroom apartment once I throw out my fridge, the good folding chair, and most of my cabinets.

Congrats to Columbus, Ohio, which leads the nation in sign-ups for Ashley Maddison. Honestly, there’s really nothing fun to do in that city besides have an affair, so I get it.

HUMP DAY HERO

Vote on who from today’s news is most deserving of the coveted title of Hump Day Hero. Congrats to last week’s hero, the Man Who Painted His Fence With a Boat, an all-time petty king. Respect.

RUSTY FEATHERSTONE REVEALS HIS REAL IDENTITY

Another masterful episode of 60 for 60 with the legend himself, Rusty Featherstone. I could listen to these two gab for hours (I already do on Playdate Pod, but still, you get the point.)

The next guest needs to hit up Red Lobster before it goes out of business and hammer biscuits and unlimited shrimp until they pass out. Just for the vibes.

STUFF TO CLICK WHEN YOU’RE BORED TODAY

• Fully lost myself reading the Ringer’s Top 20 Movie Car Chases breakdown and was 8 mins late to a meeting yesterday. Worth it.

• Chris Davis Jr. was offered a scholarship at Auburn for 2028, 15 years after his dad’s iconic Kick-Six to beat Bama. Feels like yesterday tbh.

• Read this on your lunch break: How the Dairy Industry took over your feed.

• The iconic 4 Seasons Orlando Baby speaks out. Kind of. 

• This 3D interactive map of the stars in the universe blew my mind. Crazy that we are the only beings that matter in the entire universe and it all revolves around us entirely.

• The SNL Weekend Update joke swap with Che and Jost is always my favorite part of the show. This year did not disappoint.