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A few more words about the OpenAI / Scarlett Johansson situation https://www.platformer.news/platform-sales-tax-california-sb1327-glazer/

The company is not answering any follow-up questions on the record. As far as I can tell, its story is that Altman pursued Johansson to voice ChatGPT as a kind of rogue side project, while a separate team undertook a separate casting process that accidentally resulted in it choosing a woman whose voice sounds uncannily like Johansson’s. It then chose to use the Johansson-like voice in all of its demos last week for unspecified reasons, and Altman posted “her” on X for additional unspecified reasons, and anyway the whole thing was just a crazy coinkydink that not even ChatGPT herself could have ever dreamed up. On one hand I understand that this is just a voice that we are talking about, and if superhuman intelligence is on its way here then we all have much bigger problems to worry about. On the other hand the OpenAI team has spent nearly a decade talking up the values of trust, transparency, collaboration, and alignment with human intent, only to lose sight of them all here. Its narrative about the Johansson debacle is essentially that its chief executives slipped on a series of banana peels over the last nine months until they were trapped in an uncanny valley between one of the world’s most famous actresses and another actress, whom it declines to name, who sounds just like her.
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