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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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#22I 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”
That’s all successful tech companies out of Silicon Valley.
It is a silly place.
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#23There is no source; black text on a white background. How do we know this is real?
This reporter appears to have confirmed it from a direct source https://x.com/yashar/status/1792682664845254683?t=EwNPiMPwRe...
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
#24What are the chances that among 7 billion people in the world that there are always going to be 100 people that sound like you? If Sam Altman was going for a particular voice, there are probably 100 people that indistinguishably have that voice and it just becomes a question of a headhunt.
One word: "Her"
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#25I 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”
Him and pretty much the entire SV culture.
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#26I think it’s interesting that Johansson chose to forgo substantial royalties and collaboration potential
But it must feel pretty fucking weird and violatory when you spend your entire life thinking about how you are going to deliver certain lines and that’s your creative Body of work, and then for someone to just take that Voice and apply it to any random text that can be generated?
I get why she wouldn’t want to let it go.
In a way it is similar to how a developer might feel about their code being absorbed, generalized, and then regurgitated almost verbatim as part of some AI responses
But in the case of voice it’s even worse as the personality impression is contained in the slightest utterance… whereas a style of coding Or a piece of code might be less Recognizable, and generally applicable to such a wide range of productions
Voice is the original human technology, To try to take that from someone without their consent is a pretty all encompassing grab
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
#27What are the chances that among 7 billion people in the world that there are always going to be 100 people that sound like you? If Sam Altman was going for a particular voice, there are probably 100 people that indistinguishably have that voice and it just becomes a question of a headhunt.
That's precisely what they did with Doodle God to imitate Morgan Freeman [0] and how James Veich deep faked David Attenborough in his PLnaT eRth video [1].
[0]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/20/how-the-doodle-god-un...
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
#28Deleted?
Try another browser; I wasn't able to open it on Librewolf (Firefox fork.)
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#29Sadly not much will come of this. Even if they’re fined, so what?
You have no idea. Th will settle or be forced to admit they used a movie studios IP without payment to clone a voice model. They will cut a check for tens of millions and maybe stock as well. They will run from this as is clearly obvious from the immediate takedown. They are in crisis mode.
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#30> 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…
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