> It's fine to hire a voice actor who sounds like someone else. Not necessarily, when you're hiring them because they like someone else—especially someone else

> It's fine to hire a voice actor who sounds like someone else. Not necessarily, when you're hiring them because they like someone else—especially someone else who has said that they don't want to work with you. OpenAI took enough steps to show they wanted someone who sounded like SJ. > Surely it's OK to hire an English actor who sounds a lot like him, so long as I don't use Sir Patrick's name in the advertising. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co. and also Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay. > as long as they didn't mention SJ Or tried to hire SJ repeatedly, even as late as 2 days before the launch.