Be that as it may, but it's clear that OpenAI had early on considered a her-like voice for their product. According to OpenAI, they started with over 400 candidate voices and narrowed them down to [1]. I find it would be quite the amazing if the one that sounded very close to the her voice was chosen purely by coincidence - and then they went:
- Wait a minute, you know what she sounds like? Have you ever seen that movie Her?
- Man, you're right, it does sound quite like that voice. Wasn't that Scarlett Johansson in the movie?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Whoa, whoa, tell you what: why don't we hire Scarlett Johansson directly?
- After we just went through 400 voices to select these five?
- So what? She's a star! Think of the marketing impact! "OpenAI has developed real-life her"
- Cool, dude! But what are the odds that Johansson would do that?
- I guess there's only one way to find out...
> Yeah, man, you're right. Let's do it!
I wonder if that was how it happened...
> It would suck to be blacklisted from your career
That's true. Is that's what's happening?
[1] https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...