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Did I explicitly deny this? By the same token, unless you are privy to the last 10 months of OpenAI's closed-door meeting notes you have no authority to assert it. But without those closed-door meeting notes, the evidence we do have isn't pretty unconvincing of any wrong doing. The time-frame is off and the voices actually don't sound alike if you compare them directly.

> but the obsession with namedropping Her among OpenAI employees feels like the final nail in the coffin.

I don't see why this the nail in the coffin. Why is this about the voice and not the technology involved in creating a natural voiced AI assistant just like was demonstrated popular movie?

Plenty of technologies have been inspired by science fiction including, most obviously, the cell phone. And comparing those technologies to the science fiction version is equally common.