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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by suzzer99 »

dylan604 wrote: post #34
PixelPaul wrote: post #9

I am really not liking this Sam guy and how he does things. He has an attitude of “my way and only my way, and I don’t care what you think or do”

This is pretty much quintessential founder behavior. I have had my run-ins with people like this, and the relationship is usually short lived. I do not drink the kool-aid, and question pretty much everything. These types of personalities are like oil and water and do not mix. You almost need a third person to act as a emulsifier to allow the oil&water to mix without separating.

Yeah this explains why most of my interviews with startups haven't gone well. I've even had friends ask me to do PoC work for them for equity, and they still get all bent out of shape when I'm not instantly smitten by their one-sentence pitch, and instead ask for more details about their business plan.

If I thought I had a great idea, I would want people to try to poke holes in it. Yet founders often universally seem to be the incredibly sensitive and insecure about their idea.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by [deleted] »

drooby wrote: post #131

If we're talking about the voice from the "Say hello to GPT-4o", then this is clearly not Scarlett J. They have similar voices, but SJ has more bass and rasp. And if it's true that OpenAI hired a different actor, then this should basically be case closed. The voice of Sky (assuming that's the same as the demo video), sounds like a run of the mill voice actor tbh. Great, but not that interesting or unique.

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Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by hehdhdjehehegwv »

MrMetlHed wrote: post #100
anon373839 wrote: post #62

Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline: - OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused. - Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) - Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarle…

Would love to see this get far enough for discovery to see how that all played out behind the scenes.

They’ll settle as soon as they figure that out. Idiot tax.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by Havoc »

anon373839 wrote: post #62

Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline: - OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused. - Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) - Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarle…

> OpenAI yanked the voice from their product line.

Still live for me? Unless the Sky I’m getting is a different one?

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by imperialdrive »

talldayo wrote: post #54
steveBK123 wrote: post #37

Incredibly stupid The wink wink at creating an AI girlfriend is so bizarre I guess we know who their target user base is

Worse than that, good luck positioning yourself as a paragon of "AI safety" when you can't even handle basic human business relationships honestly.

Absolutely. Good for Scarlett, and my gosh Sam and that org need to learn a few lessons. What were they thinking?? So gross.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by dragonwriter »

crimsoneer wrote: post #122
nickthegreek wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This statement from scarlet really changed my perspective. I use and loved the Sky voice and I did feel it sounded a little like her, but moreover it was the best of their voice offerings. I was mad when they removed it. But now I’m mad it was ever there to begin with. This timeline makes it clear that this wasn’t a coincidence and maybe not even a hiring of an impressionist (which is where things get a little more w…

But it's clearly not her voice right? The version that's been on the app for a year just isn't. Like, it clearly intending to be slightly reminiscent of her, but it's also very clearly not. Are we seriously saying we can't make voices that are similar to celebrities, when not using their actual voice?

If the purpose is to trade on the celebrity voice and perceived association, and its subject to California right of personality law, then, yes, we're saying that that has been established law for decades.

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by threatofrain »

gedy wrote: post #137
crimsoneer wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's clearly not her voice right? The version that's been on the app for a year just isn't. Like, it clearly intending to be slightly reminiscent of her, but it's also very clearly not. Are we seriously saying we can't make voices that are similar to celebrities, when not using their actual voice?

Normally I'd agree if this were some vague "artist style", but this was clearly an attempt to duplicate a living person, a media celebrity no less.

Is this different from the various videos of the Harry Potter actors doing comedic high fashion ads? Because those were very well received.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuqLy87-3A

Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

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Post by deletedie »

dilap wrote: post #12

> 4. Naughtiness > Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it ma…

The more accurate (though somewhat academic) term for this trait is 'narcissism'.
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