The important thing is that they never said it was Johansson. They were not pretending to be her. They are not imitating her likeness whatsoever.
Re:OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice
by flumpcakes on Thursday May 23, 2024 @11:50AM
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Some employees were definitely thinking of Scarlett Johansson, even ignoring the reference to the film "Her":
Leaving the IP issue aside, they could clearly have hired a voice actor to closely resemble Johansson maybe without additional tweaks to the voice in post processing. If they did do that, I am not totally sure what position to take on the matter