[flexie]

It's not a clone. What is ethically murky about it?

You want Brad Pitt for your movie. He says no. You hire Benicio Del Toro because of the physical resemblence. Big deal.

Having seen "Her" and many other Scarlet Johansson movies, I didn't think for a second that GPT-4o sounded like her. On the contrary, I wondered why they had chosen the voice of a middle aged woman, and whether that was about being woke. It wasn't until social media went hysterical, I realized that the voices were sort of similar.

[column]

If it's a sequel and Brad Pitt was in the first movie and you use trickery to make people think he's in the second movie, there's a case. See Crispin Glover, the dad from Back to the future, which was NOT the upside-down dad in BTTF2. They settled for 760k USD.

[rowanG077]

Openai never claimed it was Scarlett Johansson though. They didn't trick anyone.

[pjc50]

> I wondered why they had chosen the voice of a middle aged woman

AIs and automated systems, real and fictional, traditionally use women more than men to voice them. Apparently there was some research among all-male bomber crews that this "stood out", the B-58 was issued with some recordings of Joan Elms (https://archive.org/details/b58alertaudio ) and this was widely copied.

(obvious media exception: HAL)

[blitzar]

You then tweet out, "look its Brad Pitt in my movie".

[z7]

They never claimed it was Scarlett Johansson's voice though.

[zemo]

> I wondered why they had chosen the voice of a middle aged woman, and whether that was about being woke

really weird line of reasoning. Siri, Alexa, Google Home… etc.