Jennifer Van Goethem: Or trying to get her onboard two days before launch. Also, it’s not the timbre and tone of the voice, it’s the pattern and inflection of the performance. Hiring an actress to model the physical waveforms of the voice doesn’t preclude training it on Johansson’s 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.

Altman tweeting out "her" like a muppet doesn't help their case either

Or trying to get her onboard two days before launch. Also, it’s not the timbre and tone of the voice, it’s the pattern and inflection of the performance. Hiring an actress to model the physical waveforms of the voice doesn’t preclude training it on Johansson’s performance.

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