Comment by chipweinberger
2 years ago
People see what they want to see.
If it wasn't for us being biased by the surrounding circumstances I don't think people would have confused their voices. Their voices are not that similar. I probably personally know people with a voice as similar to SJ as Sky's. You probably do too.
The voice actress says the same: "I’ve never been compared to her by the people who do know me closely."
But then suddenly a story emerges and their voices are indistinguishable. All of these extra details shouldn't have even mattered.
Everyone mentions the "her" tweet, but I'm surprised to see nobody mention this tweet from ex-OpenAI employee Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106
If it sounds nothing like her, and there was no intent to make it sound like her, why would he tweet "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson"?
Many people made the comparison right after it was released https://x.com/search?q=scarjo%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed... and https://x.com/search?q=johansson%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=ty...
Because the functionality is extremely similar to the AI depicted in Her?
the tweet doesn't say "killer app is Her", it says it's "SJo". Very big difference
Try not to hurt your spine there.
Because of "Her" I imagine and all the memes about GPT-4o. The "Her" and GPT-4o memes I always thought of them as "they both have a real-time charming female AI assistant" and not like they have the same voice.
the tweet, plus all of the last minute trying to get scarlett to sign off on it signals an intent to try and make it sound like "her"
why be an apologist?
OpenAI was given an opportunity by Scarlett to prove that they did not intend to make it sound like her, and instead of responding their choice was to take down the voice. (yet another signal)
I think you'd have to be willfully ignorant to believe there wasn't some intent here.
Whether or not it's legal to copy someone's likeness in this fashion is another story.
"the surrounding circumstances" are relevant to the question.
I thought it sounded like SJ when I watched the demo live https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&p=6#40346221
Another data point: I didn't.
Or, as the case may be, hear what they want to Her-- eh, hear.
>People see what they want to see.
Sounds like a female. Sounds like a white person. Sounds like between 30 and 40. It must be SJ.
If she were not the voice actress in the smash hit movie that their product is directly inspired by, then this would be a great point!