On: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ...

[apetrovic]

So if I have a company that sells, say, manure, I can search and hire a voice actress that sounds exactly like Scarlett to promote me in radio ads? And write a tweet that vaguely implies that it's really her?

[sebzim4500 → apetrovic]

Yes to the first bit, no to the second.

I don't think a reasonable person would interpret Sam's tweet as claiming that Scarlett recorded the voice.

[haiku2077 → sebzim4500]

There's legal precedent against the first one. Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay after they used a Tom Waits soundalike in a commercial.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...

[93po → haiku2077]

if i recall that only won because they contacted Tom first and he said no, which isn't what happened with OAI/SJ