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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
OpenAI will settle, not sure how you read that in reverse.

>>hehdhd+2E
Settling isn't unilateral. OpenAI can offer to settle, but if she doesn't accept, there will be no settlement.

>>eurlei+aE
I also said “they” instead of “her”, I’m confused as to why anybody misinterpreted what I said.

>>hehdhd+PS
Everyone knows what you meant. But it’s not up to them to “settle”. If she brings forward a formal complaint they can offer to but she has no obligation or incentive to accept.

This may turn out to be something they can’t just buy their way out of with no other consequences.