Comment by nicce
2 years ago
It is not about the voice. Rather using the fame of known actress to boost the product. If your inner motive is to sound like her because she is well-known, differences in voice does not matter much.
2 years ago
It is not about the voice. Rather using the fame of known actress to boost the product. If your inner motive is to sound like her because she is well-known, differences in voice does not matter much.
The voice was called Sky and OpenAI wasn't using her likeness to promote the voice or product. She isn't that well known, I didn't even know she was in Her.
There's 1 billion English speakers, there are going to be voice overlaps.
The issue is that they contacted her and advertised based on her. They clearly wanted it to sound like her. Now, that it sounded like her, there is a reason to make conclusions about OpenAI's real motives.
How did they advertise this as being SJ? It is worth pointing out that Sky kind of sounded like the voice from Her, not SJ. The voice in Her is a voice SJ did for that movie. It isn’t her normal speaking voice. Does she get to own the likeness of every kind of voice she’s made, or could make?
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It's such an easy lesson to learn, here: if you are a founder or in any position where your speech relative to a product or service matters, get your ass off Twitter!
"She isn't that well known"
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/scarlett-johansson-tops-l...
> The voice was called Sky
That the voice is called Sky is actually part of what's suspicious about this to me. They had all the world of female names to choose from for the voice that would recreate "Her" (and there's plenty of evidence that suggests that the movie was used as inspiration), and they chose one that started with the same rare consonant cluster as this actress. The only other names that Wikipedia lists with that consonant cluster are Skyler and Scarlett [0]. If they truly were trying to separate themselves from her rather than subtly cue the likeness, why Sky?
> She isn't that well known, I didn't even know she was in Her.
She's the second-highest-grossing actor (and the highest-grossing actress) of all time [1]. You might not know her (and neither do I), but that says more about you and me than it does about her.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Englis...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_act...
> and they chose one that started with the same rare consonant cluster as this actress
Okay so we can't use voices that are similar to actress voices, and we can't use names that starts with the same "rare consonant cluster" as actress names.
This is getting ridiculous
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Not that well known? She's one of the most famous actresses in the world! Seriously, go look at her Wikipedia page.
SCarlett AI. Sky. I know it's a reach but along with the Her tweet, you never know.
Yes, and they released in May 2024 = 05/(2+0+2+4) which is 0.625, which proves it for sure.
Come on, we don’t have to resort to reading entrails.