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People see what they want to see. If it wasn't for us being biased by the surrounding circumstances I don't think people would have confused their voices. Thei

People see what they want to see. If it wasn't for us being biased by the surrounding circumstances I don't think people would have confused their voices. Their voices are not that similar. I probably personally know people with a voice as similar to SJ as Sky's. You probably do too. The voice actress says the same: "I’ve never been compared to her by the people who do know me closely." But then suddenly a story emerges and their voices are indistinguishable. All of these extra details shouldn't have even mattered.

DeathArrow 2y ago
>People see what they want to see. Sounds like a female. Sounds like a white person. Sounds like between 30 and 40. It must be SJ.
- sanderjd 2y ago
  If she were not the voice actress in the smash hit movie that their product is directly inspired by, then this would be a great point!
Recursing 2y ago
Everyone mentions the "her" tweet, but I'm surprised to see nobody mention this tweet from ex-OpenAI employee Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106 https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106 If it sounds nothing like her, and there was no intent to make it sound like her, why would he tweet "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson"? Many people made the comparison right after it was released https://x.com/search?q=scarjo%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed_query&f=live https://x.com/search?q=scarjo%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed... and https://x.com/search?q=johansson%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed_query&f=live https://x.com/search?q=johansson%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=ty...
- sebzim4500 2y ago
  Because the functionality is extremely similar to the AI depicted in Her?
  - flavius29663 2y ago
    the tweet doesn't say "killer app is Her", it says it's "SJo". Very big difference
  - CRConrad 2y ago
    Try not to hurt your spine there.
- GaggiX 2y ago
  Because of "Her" I imagine and all the memes about GPT-4o. The "Her" and GPT-4o memes I always thought of them as "they both have a real-time charming female AI assistant" and not like they have the same voice.
- ratg13 2y ago
  the tweet, plus all of the last minute trying to get scarlett to sign off on it signals an intent to try and make it sound like "her" why be an apologist? OpenAI was given an opportunity by Scarlett to prove that they did not intend to make it sound like her, and instead of responding their choice was to take down the voice. (yet another signal) I think you'd have to be willfully ignorant to believe there wasn't some intent here. Whether or not it's legal to copy someone's likeness in this fashion is another story.
sanderjd 2y ago
"the surrounding circumstances" are relevant to the question.
volleygman180 2y ago
I thought it sounded like SJ when I watched the demo live https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&p=6#40346221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&p=6#40346221
- mwigdahl 2y ago
  Another data point: I didn't.
CRConrad 2y ago
Or, as the case may be, hear what they want to Her-- eh, hear.

DeathArrow 2y ago

>People see what they want to see. Sounds like a female. Sounds like a white person. Sounds like between 30 and 40. It must be SJ.

sanderjd 2y ago
If she were not the voice actress in the smash hit movie that their product is directly inspired by, then this would be a great point!

Recursing 2y ago

Everyone mentions the "her" tweet, but I'm surprised to see nobody mention this tweet from ex-OpenAI employee Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106 https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106 If it sounds nothing like her, and there was no intent to make it sound like her, why would he tweet "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson"? Many people made the comparison right after it was released https://x.com/search?q=scarjo%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed_query&f=live https://x.com/search?q=scarjo%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed... and https://x.com/search?q=johansson%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed_query&f=live https://x.com/search?q=johansson%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=ty...

sebzim4500 2y ago
Because the functionality is extremely similar to the AI depicted in Her?
- flavius29663 2y ago
  the tweet doesn't say "killer app is Her", it says it's "SJo". Very big difference
- CRConrad 2y ago
  Try not to hurt your spine there.
GaggiX 2y ago
Because of "Her" I imagine and all the memes about GPT-4o. The "Her" and GPT-4o memes I always thought of them as "they both have a real-time charming female AI assistant" and not like they have the same voice.
ratg13 2y ago
the tweet, plus all of the last minute trying to get scarlett to sign off on it signals an intent to try and make it sound like "her" why be an apologist? OpenAI was given an opportunity by Scarlett to prove that they did not intend to make it sound like her, and instead of responding their choice was to take down the voice. (yet another signal) I think you'd have to be willfully ignorant to believe there wasn't some intent here. Whether or not it's legal to copy someone's likeness in this fashion is another story.

sanderjd 2y ago

"the surrounding circumstances" are relevant to the question.

volleygman180 2y ago

I thought it sounded like SJ when I watched the demo live https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&p=6#40346221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&p=6#40346221

mwigdahl 2y ago
Another data point: I didn't.

CRConrad 2y ago

Or, as the case may be, hear what they want to Her-- eh, hear.