OpenAI reveals details about ChatGPT voices along with special reference to Sky

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That doesn’t appear to be what’s happening here.

  1. Many people think sky sounds similar to Scarlett Johansson. People were writing as much from the day the voices were released.
  2. She was apparently in contact with OpenAI about doing a voice for the models and rejected them.
  3. The lawsuit came only after the Spring Update event where the voice capabilities of gpt-4o were demonstrated.

So, I don’t believe sky is so much the issue as is the voice of gpt-4o (which may be a different version of sky, hence its removal).

My thoughts on it personally are:

  • I don’t think sky sounds like Scarlett Johansson.
  • I think the expressiveness of the gpt-4o voice resembles many of the intonations and patterns of Scarlett Johansson’s performance inHer.
  • I think it would be monumentally short-sighted to build a voice model on the voice of a world-famous actress without permission.
  • I don’t think OpenAI (or their legal team) is monumentally short-sighted.
  • When people have disputes which they can’t resolve between themselves, in a civilized society the proper course of action is to use an outside mediator—often the civil court system—to adjudicate their dispute.

So I, personally, see nothing wrong with Scarlett Johansson involving lawyers if she feels she’s been injured by OpenAI’s actions.

Given only the facts I currently have and my own lay-opiniin I don’t think it’s a case she would prevail on, but I also don’t see this ever seeing the inside of a courtroom.

I do wish that uninvolved parties wouldn’t get so worked up about it though.