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>>mjcl+(OP)
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 Scarlett’s film.

- When Scarlett’s counsel asked for an explanation of how the “Sky” voice was created, OpenAI yanked the voice from their product line.

Perhaps Sam’s next tweet should read “red-handed”.

>>anon37+t5
Would love to see this get far enough for discovery to see how that all played out behind the scenes.

>>MrMetl+M7
They’ll settle as soon as they figure that out. Idiot tax.

>>hehdhd+rb
She has no incentive to settle and actually could win big by being the figurehead of the creative industry against AI. It’s understandable why she accepted a settlement from Disney, but there’s no reason why she should settle with a random startup that has no other influence on her employability in Hollywood.

>>ml-ano+8j
And plenty of her peers have been fighting against AI content harvesting in their recent contract negotiations[1].

1. https://apnews.com/article/hollywood-ai-strike-wga-artificia...