Tom Waits provides the template here. He successfully sued Cheetos for impersonation. The major similarity: Waits, like Johansson, declined an offer to use his voice in advertising.
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
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Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#542The thing that worried me initially was that: - the original report by Scarlett said she was approached months ago, and then two days prior to launch of GPT-4o she was approached again Because of the above, my immediate assumption was that OpenAI definitely did her dirty. But this report from WaPo debunks at least some of it, because the records they have seen show that the voice actor was contacted months in advance…
Is it a crime for voice actors to sound similar to, say, Darth Vader?
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#543I listened to a few clips of each and was expecting them to sound more similar than they do. Sure they're both female voices with some similarities, but they sound like distinctly different people if you listen to the two back to back.
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#544In the movie “Her”, there is a smart AI assistant that you can talk to and is friendly and has good natural language. How is it not obvious to everybody that this is what Sam and the OpenAI people are referencing with their tweets? Scarlett Johanssons voice is certainly pleasing, but it feels misplaced to assume that the voice is the important thing here and not everything else.
> How is it not obvious to everybody that this is what Sam and the OpenAI people are referencing with their tweets?
Because according to Johansson, Sam also approached her twice in an attempt to license her voice legitimately. That's not the sort of thing that happens when you make an incidental reference to a film; he wanted that voice, so badly that he tried making a second offer (and got refused).
> but it feels misplaced to assume that the voice is the important thing here
We're just as surprised as you are; honestly, Sam should have known better than to drill down and insist on something as stupid as copying a misanthropic psychological horror film.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#545In the movie “Her”, there is a smart AI assistant that you can talk to and is friendly and has good natural language. How is it not obvious to everybody that this is what Sam and the OpenAI people are referencing with their tweets? Scarlett Johanssons voice is certainly pleasing, but it feels misplaced to assume that the voice is the important thing here and not everything else.
I find the whole thing just bizzare. I agree, the only thing I'm confused about is why OpenAI ever contacted Scarlett to begin with. Did they want her to represent the product? The voice is really just a generic flirtacious woman; this wouldn't have been a problem if they'd never contacted her. We need a proper explanation as to why they contacted her in the first place.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#546Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which one are we saying sounds like Johansson? I'm talking about the TTS voice in the app, is everyone else talking about the multimodal voice from the 4o demos? Also, whether they *intended* to replicate Her and whether they *did* in the end are very different.
This one: https://youtu.be/vgYi3Wr7v_g?feature=shared&t=22 compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=125
Well, I thought it will be similar, but at least with how sky voice sounds through the phone speakers, I can hardly find any resemblance.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#547I can’t help but think this is a matter of bias. I think the voice sounds a bit like Scarlett Johansson. But I’ve been told by two different people that I sound like Charlie Sheen… when I’m on the phone.
This feels a bit to me like confirmation bias: “OpenAI is selling an AI voice tool just like in that movie! Surely that’s what they’re going for!”
That said, the fact that they contacted her twice about it does feel awfully suspicious
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#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, to me, it's just sounds like they know how to cover all their bases. To me, it sounds like they had the idea to make their AI sound like "her". For the initial version, they had a voice actor that sounds like the movie, as a proof of concept. They still liked it, so it was time to contact the real star. In the end, it's not just the voice, it would have been the brand, just imagine the buzz they would h…
Sky doesn't sound like the movie, much less "uncanny".
I think it sounds overly enthusiastic though, to the point that it sounds fake. Very overacted and dramatic. I wouldn't want to chat with that voice.
Though admittedly, so does Johansson in "Her". I don't think the voices are very similar but the style is.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which one are we saying sounds like Johansson? I'm talking about the TTS voice in the app, is everyone else talking about the multimodal voice from the 4o demos? Also, whether they *intended* to replicate Her and whether they *did* in the end are very different.
This one: https://youtu.be/vgYi3Wr7v_g?feature=shared&t=22 compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=125
I keep reading in the media that Sky was introduced as part of ChatGPT-4o, but that's incorrect. Sky's been around since they introduced the mobile iOS app.
While Sky's voice shares similar traits to SJ, it sounds different enough that I was never confused as to whether it was actually SJ or not.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#550Earlier quoted context omitted.
They voice artist put out a statement through her lawyer. She also stated her voice has never been compared to Scarlett in real life by anyone who knows her.
This is just Scarlett Johansson trying to destroy some small voice actor. I greatly dislike what OpenAI is doing, but this is just ridiculous.
Why would she?