Echoes of when Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice. That time it was impossible to tell who was in the right - there was no available recording of OpenAI's supposed Scarlett clone - they had pulled it immediately for fear of bad PR.

Then came the completely nonsensical HN threads with people arguing about something they hadn't heard.

Maybe don't redo that whole thing? Could we at least make sure to secure some examples of A and B, this time?

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice (May 20, 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225 (1021 comments)

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show (May 23, 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448045 (1218 comments)

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Leynos 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1790072174117613963?s=20

	▲	lysace 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not it. This is the first version of the Sky voice model which most people seem to agree doesn't sound that much like Scarlett. See my adjacent comment for more details.

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ghostly_s 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't know what you're talking about, clips of the AI voice were publicly available at the time.

	▲	lysace 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They were definitely not. Here is someone in that first thread trying to figure out what is actually going on, and failing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421757 I had to wade through 12 gigantic generic political subthreads to find this. "Do you have an example of the changed voice anywhere?" (No replies.) "Yes, I feel gaslit by the whole situation" is a great summary. Please post a clip from the time. I'm still curious to hear how similar or not they acually were.