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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
Given the timeline, I’m still baffled Sam Altman tweeted “her.” That just makes plausible deniability go away for a random shitpost.

>>minima+ji
I thought it was about functionality more than the specific voice.

>>prepen+1o
I suspect that'll be OpenAI's defense.

>>minima+gp
That is what discovery is for. If this would ever get to that phase.

Someone from OpenAi hired the agency who hired the voice talent (or talents) for the voice data. They sent them a brief explaining what they are looking for, followed by a metric ton of correspondence over samples and contracts and such.

If anywhere during those written communications anyone wrote “we are looking for a ScarlettJ imitator”, or words to that effect, that is not good for OpenAI. Similarly if they were selecting between options and someone wrote that one sample is more Johansson than an other. Or if anyone at any point asked if they should clear the rights to the voice with Johansson.

Those are the discovery findings which can sink such a defense.

>>krisof+4w
Discovery works both ways. The original Her voice actress[1] was recast to someone more SoCal in post-production, so there is evidence of the flirty erotic AI style itself not being a unique enough selling point.

It will come down to what makes the complaining celebrity's voice iconic, which for Scarjo is the 'gravelly' bit. Which smooth Sky had none of.

[1] actress reading poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEEAjRFJKc

>>unrave+YS
> Discovery works both ways.

Ok? What materials would you suspect discovery can uncover from Scarlett or her team?

> was recast to someone more SoCal in post-production

Was recast to Scarlett Johansson. Hardly a good argument if you want to argue that her voice is not unique.

>>krisof+Iv1
I argued Scarlett Johansson's natural voice is iconic and unique and it is not apparent in the Sky voice. The "new" intoned voice of Sky 4o is receiving most claims of likeness ripoff but this intoning part is not unique to ScarJo either since the Her production already had a version of it with the other VA. I doubt scarlett will suggest she was playing herself without creative direction from Her team.

Are you arguing that Her performance is not the resembling factor here but simply the natural voice of ScarJo at rest, disregarding Her?