Comment by LewisVerstappen
2 years ago
I will agree with you if
- they used Johannson's actual voice in training the text to speech model
or
- a court finds that they violated Johannson's likeness.
From hearing the demo videos, I don't think the voice sounded that similar to Johannson.
But hiring another actor to replicate someone you refused your offer is not illegal and is done all the time by hollywood.
> But hiring another actor to replicate someone you refused your offer is not illegal and is done all the time by hollywood.
Probably this could indeed make them "win" (or not lose rather) in a legal battle/courts.
But doing so will easily make them lose in the PR/public sense, as it's a shitty thing to do to another person, and hopefully not everyone is completely emotionless.
> But doing so will easily make them lose in the PR/public sense, as it's a shitty thing to do to another person, and hopefully not everyone is completely emotionless.
If an actor is saying no and you have a certain creative vision then what do you do?
Johansson doesn't own the idea of a "flirty female AI voice".
Find someone else? You think this is a new problem? Directors/producers frequently have a specific person in mind for casting in movies, but if the person says no, they'll have to find someone else. The solution is not to create a fictional avatar that "borrows" the non-consenting person's visual appearance.
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