PSUbowler: I dunno man, I'm just a layman here, but "Hey ScarJo, will you do this voice? If not, we'll just get someone who sounds exactly like you and let people think of you and your character when they hear it." seems problematic, no?

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!

I dunno man, I'm just a layman here, but "Hey ScarJo, will you do this voice? If not, we'll just get someone who sounds exactly like you and let people think of you and your character when they hear it." seems problematic, no?

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