C. L. Polk: I don't know what kind of arrogance it takes to even imagine you could rip off Scarlett "run me my money, Disney" Johanson for more than half a second

Remember when everyone was absolutely certain about the thing that totally happened and exemplified everything wrong with "AI culture" that ended up being...not what happened? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records showwww.washingtonpost.com A different actress was hired to voice OpenAI’s “Sky” months before CEO Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson, according to documents and the actress’s agent.

I have been reading you for years, and I can’t believe you just posted “people accused of doing a Bad Thing willing shared internal documents they chose, those documents show no evidence of them doing the Bad Thing, so I guess it didn’t happen.”

If this story had been “Trump Org releases internal emails, none of them discuss stealing classified documents, so it looks like he didn’t steal internal documents” you would have laughed at it.

Sure, they tried to hire the actress, then they tried to hire her again two days before launch, then on the day of the launch the founder tweeted the title of her famous role associated with the product, but the company says there’s no email! You must acquit.

I don't know what kind of arrogance it takes to even imagine you could rip off Scarlett "run me my money, Disney" Johanson for more than half a second

She also literally just participated in a strike where the ability to control or stop studios from using actors likenesses in AI was a key factor. The odds of her either agreeing to license her voice *or* to not fight an attempt to imitate her were extremely low.

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