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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

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squigz wrote: post #15
pavlov wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely there’s some kind of difference between “voice impression for a two-line cameo in one episode of an animated sitcom” and “reproducing your voice as the primary interface for a machine that could be used by billions of people and is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.” Is there a name for this AI fallacy? The one where programmers make an inductive leap like, for example, if a human can read one book to lear…

> for example, if a human can read one book to learn something, then it’s ok to scan millions of books into a computer system because it’s just another kind of learning. Since this comes up all the time , I ask: What exactly is the number of books a human can ingest before it becomes illegal?

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Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by SeanAnderson »

xyst wrote: post #57

I don’t think OpenAI has a chance to win this in open court. They are very likely to settle out of court. Investors get a bit anxious with pending litigation. But I honestly hope Johansson does not. She certainly has the runway to take it all the way. Make them look like fools in open court. Show the people their real colors.

Why do you feel OpenAI doesn't have a chance to win in court given the information presented in this WaPo article? It seems fairly conclusive to me.

Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by tivert »

modeless wrote: post #33

> an actress was hired to create the Sky voice months before Altman contacted Johansson > the actress confirmed that neither Johansson nor the movie “Her” were ever mentioned by OpenAI. The actress’s natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice, based on brief recordings Given this I don't think anyone at OpenAI did anything wrong in this instance except Sam Altman. After getting explicitly rejected b…

>> an actress was hired to create the Sky voice months before Altman contacted Johansson

>> the actress confirmed that neither Johansson nor the movie “Her” were ever mentioned by OpenAI. The actress’s natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice, based on brief recordings

> Given this I don't think anyone at OpenAI did anything wrong in this instance except Sam Altman.

Not necessarily. The OpenAI people could had the internally stated goal of making a soundalike of Johansson, sorted through the applicants to find actress who sounded closest to Johansson, then gave direction to steer the actress's performance to be similar to Johansson's in Her. All the while never mentioning Johansson or her movie to the actress directly.

Maybe they were trying to mimic the precedent of Compaq reverse engineering and cloning the PC BIOS using a "Clean Room."

Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by frankacter »

gamblor956 wrote: post #51
joekinley wrote: post #29

I can't help but think that this was all planned. It is a very intricately planned, and geniously executed marketing ploy to make sure everyone knows about the company, the new release, that there is voice now, and even makes everyone look into it just to "see for themselves". Whether this was in with ScarJo in the loop or not, does not really change the outcome, but would be a nice information we probably will never…

It's not very impressive. As a result of the negative publicity, most people know OpenAI as the company that steals things from other people. Most of them will never hear that this one time, OpenAI didn't actually do the thing they were accused of doing. That's the problem with having a repeat liar as a CEO: you lose any credibility for those rare instances when you're actually telling the truth.

>most people know OpenAI as the company that steals things from other people.

That is already the perception of AI in general, especially evident if you reflect back on the Github Copilot launch.

People move on as the usefulness of the next shiny thing fills the void of time.

Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by 123yawaworht456 »

seydor wrote: post #35

The whole thing was absurd. The voice doesnt even sound like her

it was an opportunity for the representatives of soon to be extinct professions to bash the technology that spells their doom. the inconvenient fact that the AI didn't actually sound like the actress didn't matter.

Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by tptacek »

tivert wrote: post #52
MattGaiser wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They used a different person, so it is not her voice.

> They used a different person, so it is not her voice. That doesn't matter because it's an impersonation. Ford lost, even though they didn't use Bette Midler's voice either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co .

The story addresses this as well.

Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by shalmanese »

seydor wrote: post #35

The whole thing was absurd. The voice doesnt even sound like her

That may be your opinion but we have plenty of social media conversations about it when the voice first came out 7 months ago, before any of this was a controversy, and the only two names that are consistently brought up are Scarlett Johansson and Rashida Jones for who the voice reminds them of.

Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

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Post by comfysocks »

moi2388 wrote: post #22

Yes, how dare another woman have a voice that might somewhat sound like Scarlett?

Can’t really fault the voice actor for having a specific voice.

The question is whether or not OAI traded on the similarity to Scarlet Js likeness. The “her” tweet raises suspicions.

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