Johansson’s statement and timeline makes it very clear that the board was right to try and get rid of Sam Altman.
The tweet in particular must be giving OAI’s lawyers a huge headache right now.
Sounds like an admission of guilt
This shit needs to be regulated, and fast, with strong protections for artists/creators. And not the tailor-made favorable regulations Altman pretended he wanted during that weird PR tour in DC a while back…Real, strict, enforceable regulations with actual consequences for when this POS inevitably breaks them because he thinks he’s better than us. The regulations need to include strong antitrust protections so we don’t end up with a few warring models run by a few trillionaire companies who only have their own selfish interests in mind.
He thinks he’s better than us, but worse than that, he thinks we’re all stupid and can’t see what he’s trying to pull off right in front of us. The hubris on this fucker is appalling.
How can a celebrity have any rights over the voice of another voice actor just because they have a similar sounding voice to you? I get it’s AI so there’s some uncanny valley / ethical implications but that idea seems really weird to me.
EDIT: I’m genuinely interested in this and would love to hear counter arguments or gaps in my thinking here. At face value it seems like anyone who has a voice that sounds similar to Scarlett is barred from working as a voice actor if we accept this principle.
Considering Altman commented referencing the movie Her, I don’t think it’s crazy to say they’re ripping off her voice
If they trained on recordings of Scarlett then that’s wrong imo, but hiring voice actors and one of them sounds like her is different. It comes back to my original point, if I listen to some media with someone that sounds like me do I have the right to get the company to take down the audio? I feel like I’m missing something but that’s the point I’m getting stuck on.
Yeah I agree with you. If they had used her actual voice without permission, that’s one thing. But they hired a voice actor who sounded like what they wanted their voice model to sound like. Sam Altman tweeted “her” on May 13 2024, which I guess people are using to say he ripped off SJ, but I don’t see how. 1) being inspired by other creative works, and referencing them in your own work is neither stealing nor illegal, and 2) if anything he was inspired by the AI character in the movie, not SJ herself, i.e. the inspiration was from the writer/director/audio engineers in conjunction with SJ’s performance. You getting downvoted here is just the Internet hive mind doing its thing rather than anyone having any actual argument for why this is wrong.
