He never mentioned her by name, he pointed out how the AI demo OpenAI created is similar to the _character_ from Her.
If you don't want to be linked to a character forever, maybe don't act? It's just such a ridiculous statement to make. Like making an argument that no one should talk about Obi Wan because Alec Guinness didn't like being recognized from Star Wars.
And yet Kaparthy (a co-founder of OpenAI) did mention her by name as "the killer app of LLMs", less than 24 hours from the announcement.
> The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson.