OpenAI Stole Scarlet Johansson's Voice

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[steffen]

As a European it is wild that they can have "should be non union" as a requirement for a job. In Europe it is considered sensitive personal data and it is illegal to treat employees differently based on union membership.

[LukanSpellweaver]

A casting call asking for "non union actors" screams "we are going to take advantage of you!"

[caffedinator]

Not a good sign when the first ask for a job is “Must not be in a union…”

[ardenthebibliophile]

As an FYI incogni is also difficult to cancel. You must open a support ticket and undergo multiple questions and offers prior to them allowing you to cancel their service.

It's a predatory tactic and I would reconsider your relationship with them

[Jcewazhere]

"The actors should be nonunion" well there's your problem.
We need to stand together against the corpos.

[hjewkes]

“You know who would be great to antagonize? That actress who’s lawyers beat Disney”

[BlooferLady]

"To protect her privacy, we can't release her name." Ah, the normal thing where actresses don't want credit for their work.

I thought they usually put artists in witness protection into convents where they make the choirs into world-wide sensations.

[Hasmanian]

They wanted Scar Jo but they also advertised for a non-union voice actor. God forbid the tech bros pay an artist what they deserve.

[JamesWanders]

Europe has had a tangential issue to this for decades: typically the same voice actor is hired to dub.the same actor in all of their roles. So one woman always does ScarJo, and viewers learn to associate the two. The voice actors are then hired to do radio spots commercial voice-overs, implicitly giving the impression that the ScarJo herself is endorsing the product.

[coronelkittycannon]

OpenAI has broken every license they ever encountered. This is right up their alley.

[jackeea_]

I miss when getting your voice stolen was something that the fae folk did, not multi-billion dollar corporations

[Demmrir]

"See you court" is the funniest thing I've experienced all day.

[Josephkerr]

HEY!!! Adobe changed their terms and agreement on 4.2 which seems to be a blank check to content. I'm part of a company that uses their products extensively and our clients are big corporations. Their agreement seems to suggest we give them an open ended license to the content we use.

I don't believe we can give rights to our clients artwork.

But also this seems like anyone using Adobe products like reader for PDFs is just giving them open ended control of the data. I think lots of medical documents would be open to data theft through this agreement change. Isn't that also a HIPPA violation?

I need legal eagle to look into this!

[Mobri]

Bette Midler's case is the music industry's way of saying "You can't sue someone for copying your style! ...Unless you're already a professional artist and are wealthy enough to pursue litigation with a large corporation."

[Alb]

"The actors should be nonunion"

hm.

[darkindy]

I think the thing that should scare them the most, is that she had the courage to sue Disney when they tried to screw her over. She has no fear.

[Spikelangelo]

"nobody in my audience knows any of those people" Some of us grew up pre-internet you know.

[MannyXVIII]

The best part about that data clip is guinan asking him "more?" and data replies happily "please"

[ww]

"Should be nonunion." Sounds like we need more unions and more union membership.

[enn]

lol. How brazen. Frito Lay copies Tom Waits voice for a commercial after hearing a song where Waits was mocking corny commercials. It's absolutely no surprise he wanted nothing to do with it. What a brain-dead and out of touch move by their marketing team. Marketers have sold their souls, corrupting genuine art for corporate greed. I've seen it all my life.