Comment by bengale
2 years ago
A more charitable scenario might be that they hire the voice actor and it sounds a bit like her. Someone suggests why don't we just get Scarlett to do it properly, wouldn't that be cooler? They reach out and she says no. They decide to continue with the one that sounds a bit like her.
Genuine question;
Why in the world would one expect the more charitable scenario?
It's just a best practice that serves as a healthy counterbalance to cognitive biases, that might otherwise urge us to convict without evidence.
It's not necessarily what will prove true at the end of the day but I think we owe people the presumption of innocence.
I think we owe people outside of a commercial environment the presumption of innocence and benefit of the doubt. But we owe profit-seeking corporations (or their officers) neither, and the assumption should be that they are simply amorally doing whatever maximizes profit. As soon as someone hangs their shingle out there as a business, our presumptions should change.
Is it necessarily a bad bias to assume OpenAI is still behaving as it's been behaving during its entire history: recklessly taking other people's IP?
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Yes, you owe people that.
No, you do not owe "corporations, especially those with a tendency, incentive, and history of being ruthless in this way."
Wise up, people.
Because it follows the legal principle of innocent untill proven guilty? Unlike the "OpenAI must have cloned Scarlett Johansson's voice" wild dystophia speculations.
This is goofy. "The law" should be careful because the law has power to do real harm.
People don't need to be careful just talking; in fact we generally support the idea of "people saying whatever" in the form of the First Amendment.
The Principle of Charity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Until proven otherwise I try not to assume malice in every action.
That's the same thing, in fewer words. It doesn't change that the beginning and the end are still imitating the original, and this is a billion dollar corporation, not an Elvis personator doing a little show.