Jams: You might not be that perturbed personally, but assuming you've followed at least some of the various artists' union negotiations and lobbying efforts, you must be aware that one of the most important issues to artists is whether they can protect exclusive control of their voice and performance.

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.

Ari, this isn’t a great take. It’s still incredibly likely that they wanted to have people think it was her. bsky.app/profile/lega...

In voiceover work there’s a concept called a “soundalike” which is an actor chosen to impersonate someone more famous. My guess was always that this was what they did.

Ill admit to being not all that perturbed about soundalikes in general. I can agree that false claims that someone *actually* is the voice when they aren't is problematic, but it seems to be from other responses that everyone knew from the beginning it was a soundalike!

You might not be that perturbed personally, but assuming you've followed at least some of the various artists' union negotiations and lobbying efforts, you must be aware that one of the most important issues to artists is whether they can protect exclusive control of their voice and performance.

Sure. And I agree that falsely claiming it is her l, or misleading people into thinking it is, are both bad. But past that...meh

So if they just do everything they can to make the ai voice sound like SJ, but never say anything about it sounding like her voice, or not, they're fine, legally speaking?

Maybe. Probably.

How did that work out for Ford?

Different facts. Different laws.

Is it though?

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