Johansson’s statement and timeline makes it very clear that the board was right to try and get rid of Sam Altman.

The tweet in particular must be giving OAI’s lawyers a huge headache right now.

Sounds like an admission of guilt

This shit needs to be regulated, and fast, with strong protections for artists/creators. And not the tailor-made favorable regulations Altman pretended he wanted during that weird PR tour in DC a while back…Real, strict, enforceable regulations with actual consequences for when this POS inevitably breaks them because he thinks he’s better than us. The regulations need to include strong antitrust protections so we don’t end up with a few warring models run by a few trillionaire companies who only have their own selfish interests in mind.

He thinks he’s better than us, but worse than that, he thinks we’re all stupid and can’t see what he’s trying to pull off right in front of us. The hubris on this fucker is appalling.

How can a celebrity have any rights over the voice of another voice actor just because they have a similar sounding voice to you? I get it’s AI so there’s some uncanny valley / ethical implications but that idea seems really weird to me.

EDIT: I’m genuinely interested in this and would love to hear counter arguments or gaps in my thinking here. At face value it seems like anyone who has a voice that sounds similar to Scarlett is barred from working as a voice actor if we accept this principle.