It's actually a Japanese actress doing an impression of Scarlett Johansson.
Which would be a pretty cute and dry violation of likeness rights.
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
661–670 of 1001 posts
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#662Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. And that's extremely hard to believe. A discovery search of the internal emails should give us a definitive answer.
To find this "extremely hard to believe", you have to argue that this story, which has multiple sources unaffiliated with OpenAI, contemporaneous documentary evidence, and is written by a reporter with every incentive in the world to roast OpenAI, is directly wrong about facts plainly reported in the story. I think you have to want this story to be wrong to think it's wrong. It's a tough beat! Everyone was super sure…
I'm sorry friend, I don't know what to tell you.
I find it extremely hard to believe.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#663Well, here are some things that aren't really being disputed: * OpenAI wanted an AI voice that sounds like SJ * SJ declined * OpenAI got an AI voice that sounds like SJ anyway I guess they want us to believe this happened without shenanigans, but it's bit hard to. The headline of the article is a little funny, because records can't really show they weren't looking for an SJ sound-alike. They can just show that those…
The article clearly disputes this. They hired and worked with the voice actor for Sky months before the first time SJ was contacted, and the voice actor used for Sky never had the movie Her or SJ's name mentioned to her a single time
The Movie Her predates all of this by years, and Sam Altman even tweeted "her"! The OpenAI team are clearly well aware of Scarlett's voice (its inconceivable the majority of the team at OpenAI haven't at least seen part of the film that almost defined their industry). The movie predates all of this by years - of course they knew.
When auditioning actors "months before" they can still look for an actor who guess what? Sounds like SJ, even "before the first time SJ was contacted".
As the actor - I'd likely also be looking to emulate SJ in Her - its clearly what the client was looking for.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#664Earlier quoted context omitted.
A more charitable scenario might be that they hire the voice actor and it sounds a bit like her. Someone suggests why don't we just get Scarlett to do it properly, wouldn't that be cooler? They reach out and she says no. They decide to continue with the one that sounds a bit like her.
Genuine question; Why in the world would one expect the more charitable scenario?
Because it follows the legal principle of innocent untill proven guilty? Unlike the "OpenAI must have cloned Scarlett Johansson's voice" wild dystophia speculations.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#665Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#666Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article clearly disputes this. They hired and worked with the voice actor for Sky months before the first time SJ was contacted, and the voice actor used for Sky never had the movie Her or SJ's name mentioned to her a single time
The Movie Her predates all of this by years, and Sam Altman even tweeted "her"! The OpenAI team are clearly well aware of Scarlett's voice (its inconceivable the majority of the team at OpenAI haven't at least seen part of the film that almost defined their industry). The movie predates all of this by years - of course they knew. When auditioning actors "months before" they can still look for an actor who guess what?…
Even if thats true why would that be illegal or unethical? She can't possibly have a copyright on all voices that sounds like "her"
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#667The issue is Sam even asking SJ. And then sending her another ask before the release.
If they just released, people would be like hey it’s like “Her”.
Sky doesn’t sound like SJ. It’s a different voice.
Sam didn’t have to tweet “her”.
The problem with CEOs is they can’t keep their mouths shut. Same with Elon. They have God complex and need to be center of attention.
If Elon just kept it to science memes, Tesla would be a much larger company.
But they can’t keep their heads down and execute. They gotta be out there with their megaphones alienating the very crowd that got them there.
At this point, I feel OpenAI would be a more successful company without Sam.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#668Well, here are some things that aren't really being disputed: * OpenAI wanted an AI voice that sounds like SJ * SJ declined * OpenAI got an AI voice that sounds like SJ anyway I guess they want us to believe this happened without shenanigans, but it's bit hard to. The headline of the article is a little funny, because records can't really show they weren't looking for an SJ sound-alike. They can just show that those…
Clearly an SJ voice was the goal, given that Altman asked her to do it, asked her a second time just two days before the ChatGPT-4o release, and then tweeted "her" on the release day. The next day Karpathy, recently ex-OpenAI, then tweets "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson".
Altman appears to be an habitual liar. Note his recent claim not to be aware of the non-disparagement and claw-back terms he had departing employees agree to. Are we supposed to believe that the company lawyer or head of HR did this without consulting (or more likely being instructed by) the co-founder and CEO?!
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#669As soon as Scarlett Johansson said "no" (which I assume is true), OpenAI needed to go in very different directions to avoid anything that might look bad. It doesn't matter if they used a sound-alike or built a model from actual source material; anything would look bad. It looks especially bad when the company insists chatbot outputs are synthesized and not copyright infringement.
Re: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
#670Well, here are some things that aren't really being disputed: * OpenAI wanted an AI voice that sounds like SJ * SJ declined * OpenAI got an AI voice that sounds like SJ anyway I guess they want us to believe this happened without shenanigans, but it's bit hard to. The headline of the article is a little funny, because records can't really show they weren't looking for an SJ sound-alike. They can just show that those…
Clearly an SJ voice was the goal, given that Altman asked her to do it, asked her a second time just two days before the ChatGPT-4o release, and then tweeted "her" on the release day. The next day Karpathy, recently ex-OpenAI, then tweets "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson". Altman appears to be an habitual liar. Note his recent claim not to be aware of the non-disparagement and claw-back terms he had depa…
They hired the actor that did the voice months before they contacted SJ. The reaction on this site to the news that this story was false is kind of mindbending.