“Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson” by Zvi

I repeat. Do not mess with Scarlett Johansson.

You would think her movies, and her suit against Disney, would make this obvious.

Apparently not so.

Andrej Karpathy (co-founder OpenAI, departed earlier), May 14: The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson. You all thought it was math or something.

You see, there was this voice they created for GPT-4o, called ‘Sky.’

People noticed it sounded suspiciously like Scarlett Johansson, who voiced the AI in the movie Her, which Sam Altman says is his favorite movie of all time, which he says inspired OpenAI ‘more than a little bit,’ and then he tweeted “Her” on its own right before the GPT-4o presentation, and which was the comparison point for many people reviewing the GPT-4o debut?

Quite the Coincidence

I mean, surely that couldn’t have been intentional.

Oh, no.

Kylie Robison: I [...]

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Outline:

(01:00) Quite the Coincidence

(04:02) Scarlett Johansson's Statement

(06:00) Sure Looks Like OpenAI Lied

(10:20) Sure Seems Like OpenAI Violated Their Own Position

(11:58) Altman's Original Idea Was Good, Actually

(12:54) This Seems Like a Really Bad Set of Facts for OpenAI?

(14:30) Does Scarlett Johansson Have a Case?

(19:10) What Would It Mean For There Not To Be a Case?

(22:51) The Big Rule Adjustment

(27:24) The Internet Reacts

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First published:
May 22nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N8aRDYLuakmLezeJy/do-not-mess-with-scarlett-johansson

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.