"- asking for consent, getting a firm "no," and then going ahead and doing the thing anyway is an almost too-on-the-nose encapsulation of the hubris and contempt permeating the AI industry..."

Uh, yeah. Too bad that it takes messin' with #ScarJo before this even reaches the mainstream (no word yet on consequences), especially considering how many people have been f**king screaming about it from the beginning.

https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson
#AI #tech #business

It's NOT scarlett johannson:

"OpenAI didn't intend to copy Scarlett Johansson's voice, 'The Washington Post' reports
The actor for Sky merely used her natural voice, based on the clips 'The Post' listened to.

OpenAI cast the actor of Sky's voice months before Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson, and it had no intention of finding someone who sounded like her, according to The Washington Post. The publication said the flier OpenAI issued last year looked for actors that had "warm, engaging [and] charismatic" voices. They needed to be between 25 and 45 years old and had to be non-union, but OpenAI reportedly didn't specify that it was looking for a Scarlett Johansson voice-alike. If you'll recall, Johansson accused the company of copying her likeness without permission for its Sky voice assistant.

The agent of Sky's voice told The Post that the company never talked about Johansson or the movie Her with their talent. OpenAI apparently didn't tweak the actor's recordings to sound like Johansson either, because her natural voice sounded like Sky's, based on the clips of her initial voice test that The Post had listened to. OpenAI product manager Joanne Jang told the publication that the company selected actors who were eager to work on AI. She said that Mira Murati, the company's Chief Technology Officer, made all the decisions about the AI voices project and that Altman was not intimately involved in the process.

Jang also told the publication that to her, Sky sounded nothing like Johansson. Sky's actress told The Post through her agent that she just used her natural voice and that she has never been compared to Johansson by the people who know her closely."

https://www.engadget.com/openai-didnt-intend-to-copy-scarlett-johanssons-voice-the-washington-post-reports-041247992.html

draft - scarlett johannson - sorry hon, but the voice isn't yours. OpenAI has a right to hire voice actors.

draft - hashtags:
#bringbacksky
#openai
#chatgpt
#aivoice
#ai
#llm
#gpt4o
#gpt4
#multimodalai
#ScarlettJohanson
#scarjo
#rashidajones
#samaltman
#chatbot
#miramurati
#JoanneJang
#engagingtech
#HumanComputerInteraction
#generativeai

OpenAI didn't intend to copy Scarlett Johansson's voice, 'The Washington Post' reports

The actor for Sky merely used her natural voice, based on the clips 'The Post' listened to.

https://www.engadget.com/openai-didnt-intend-to-copy-scarlett-johanssons-voice-the-washington-post-reports-041247992.html

#openai
#chatgpt
#aivoice
#ai
#llm
#gpt4o
#gpt4
#multimodalai
#ScarlettJohanson
#scarjo
#rashidajones
#samaltman
#chatbot