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https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/18/scarlet...
> The actor made headlines earlier this year when she issued a public statement saying OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had contacted her in September 2023 to provide the voice for Sky, in an ode to her role in the Spike Jonze film Her, but she had declined for “personal reasons”. In May, as the company released Sky, Altman shared a tweet that simply read “her”.
So to me you really proved that the voice actress sounds more like Scarlet than a literal AI replication of Scarlet. If that's now damning, I don't know what is.
Priming is an extraordinarily powerful cognitive bias.
Try to go to a foreign language and figure out the difference between 10 famous voices. Odds are at least half of them will blend to you. Becuase you do not spend everyday listening to that language.
Now try and find a person who has a similar voice to your parent, then ask 10 random people to see if they can tell the difference. I'm sure 8/10 wouldn't be able to. I'm sure you can, though.
Voice recognition is a mix of factors, which includes familiarity and language processing. If Scarlet wasn't famous, it wouldn't have been as huge an issue because not enough fans would be familiar enough. Friends would still complain though.
>and Sam Altman didn't offer her the job
Handwaving this doesn't help. That's the entire basis of Ford v. Milton that made Ford lose the case. You can't just go behind a VA's back once they decline and use their likeness anyway. Even outside of law, that's just scummy.
The whole point I made was that it was not her "likeness". Except in the way that the voice of any young woman speaking clearly resembles the voice of any other young woman speaking clearly, because I would argue that if you took 10 random young women's voices who speak clearly (say, 10 voice actresses) and listened to them all together, you wouldn't be able to distinguish them much either.
>a United States Court of Appeals case in which Bette Midler sought remedy against Ford Motor Company for a series of commercials in the 1980s which used a Midler impersonator. The case brought into question if a unique feature, such as a voice, can distinguish someone and thus must be authorized for impersonation.
If I was defending such a case (IANAL), I'd hire 10 voice actresses of the same age and record them saying the same thing and see if the jury could detect the differences among them and to what degree.