Them trying (and failing) to negotiate the rights, and then them vaguely attempting again 2 days before launch, and fucking Altman tweeting a quite obvious reference to a movie in which SJ is the voice of an AI girlfriend - leans very very strongly in the direction of "active and intentional imitation".
Anybody trying to claim some accidental or coincidental similarity here has a pretty serious credibility hole they need to start digging themselves out of.
i.e. intent matters.
In this case, since the other voice actor has a clearly different voice than SJ, it seems like their intent is to just copy the general 'style' of the voice, and not SJ's voice itself. Speculative though.
How can you say that when they literally approached SJ for her voice, and then asked the voice actor to reproduce SJ's voice?!
you are just making that up afaict.
> How can you say that when they literally approached SJ for her voice
Almost by definition SJ's voice will match the style of 'Her', at least for awhile (*). So why not ask SJ first?
(*) voices change significantly over time.
The fact Johansson did not give permission to OpenAI to use their voice, they then hired a voice actor to similarly copy her voice likeliness with Altman tweeting a reference to the film ‘Her’ which Johansson was the starring voice actor in that film, tells you that OpenAI intended to clone and use her voice even without permission.
OpenAI HAD to pull the voice down to not risk yet another lawsuit.
The parent comment clearly has the weakest defense I have seen on this discussion.