That and repeated, rejected attempts to hire ScarJo to do the voice. I expect they have ample documentation on that.

Did you not read the article? They did the voice months before that.

Then why did they ask her two days prior launch? A potential jury would be very, very curious knowing that.

A very simple answer is that they also wanted SJ as a voice. That doesn't mean the original voice was trying to copy SJ.

They had a voice, the natural comparison watching the interaction is to Her, and they there is likely still time to get actually SJs voice before a public rollout.

If you believe a known conman like Sam Altman didn't intend to steal SJ's voice I have a bridge to sell you.

See my comment from yesterday re him being a known conman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435120

I find this whole thing very confusing because I never thought the voices sounded identical or very similar. I was initially even more confused about this whole thing because I thought I couldn't find clips of the SJ AI voice only to realize I had but it didn't sound like her.

This opinion is independent of Sam being a conman, scammer, creepy Worldcoin weirdo, and so on.

It’s not about what you believe but rather what you can prove

In particular, I'm pretty sure you can bake a voice model well enough for a canned demo in two days given we have cloning algs which will do it with 15 seconds of samples.

Production ready? Probably not, but demos don't have to be.

I may be wrong, but I believe this case would be made to a jury, not to a judge.

I think it would be hard to seat a jury that, after laying out the facts about the attempts to hire Johansen, and the tweet at the time of release, would have even one person credulous enough to be convinced this was all an honest mix-up.

Which is why it will never in a million years go to a trial.