Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

>>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
The voice was shipped last september.

>>spulla+Vq
Do you know if the voice was the same back in september?

>>burnta+YJ
It was essentially the same, the new one is definitely more human like. I have been calling it Scarjo since then.

    Sam Pullara @sampullara
    If you have the ChatGPT app, set it to the Sky voice and talk to it. It is definitely a clone of ScarJo from Her.
    6:21 PM · Dec 13, 2023

https://x.com/sampullara/status/1735122897663094853

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