Jennifer Van Goethem: Remember the whole Drake thing? Or the artist who trined an ai on her voice to sing in styles she couldn't? It's totally possible to have taken a different actors voice and modeled the read on the performance in "Her."

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

I mean nobody is gonna claim there weren't unforced errors here

So Altman was trying to inflate the perceived worth of AI at the same time he was trying to do some creepy rights grab?

Remember the whole Drake thing? Or the artist who trined an ai on her voice to sing in styles she couldn't? It's totally possible to have taken a different actors voice and modeled the read on the performance in "Her."

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