Comment by mondrian
2 years ago
Well as the article states, there’s legal precedent protecting actors from having their voices “impersonated” by other actors. The fact that Altman tweeted “her” and contacted Johansson can make the case for the intent to impersonate.
What if that's just the VA's natural voice? Must she stop doing VA?
No she just has to do so without promoting it as having been done by Scarlett Johansson.
It wasn't? None of the people I know thought it was Scarlett Johansson.
When Altman tweeted "her" I just thought: "wow, these voices sound really realistic, kinda like the movie"
Is this lawsuit worthy?
Except there wasn't any promotion. The only thing close would be Sams tweet, but this was not an official statement and could easily be explained to refer to the concept of voice assistants in general. The fact that SJ was contacted twice was actually publicized by SJ and not OpenAI.
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She isn't the issue, she isn't being sued.
She absolutely is being deplatformed and her rights are violated.
If every customer who hires her gets sued, that is basically the same as making it illegal for her to be a VA.
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> Well as the article states, there’s legal precedent protecting actors from having their voices “impersonated” by other actors.
The article doesn't state that. It says that about singers. Very different.
Thanks that’s fair.