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Re:OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice by skg_RS on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:56AM (#40455530)
I am of two minds here, regardless of the "closeness" there is a whole field of comedy that does impressions of others. That is what is so difficult about the AI discussion. Clearly, there are plenty of humans who can mimic other humans visually, in prose for writing, in voice and mannerisms etc.

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

Re:OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice by Freebytes on Thursday May 23, 2024 @11:12AM (#40455697)
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 (#40456242)
Some employees were definitely thinking of Scarlett Johansson, even ignoring the reference to the film "Her":

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106

Re:OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice by GaggiX on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:28PM (#40456721)
Karpathy doesn't work for OpenAI anymore tho.