What happens when the car starts making the decisions about where you're headed, or not headed? Oddly, "autonomous" now refers to he machine, not to the human. Palantir just started training Anthropic against secret government data. Isn't it easier to have your cybertaxi drive you to the authorities than for them to have to track you down?
Tom Waits provides the template here. He successfully sued Cheetos for impersonation. The major similarity: Waits, like Johansson, declined an offer to use his voice in advertising.
And so OpenAI can't legally... use any adult white female's voice in their product?
I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't there have to actually be a reasonable voice resemblance to conclude that there's impersonation? In a side-by-side "taste test" I don't think these two voices are very similar.
> And so OpenAI can't legally... use any adult white female's voice in their product?
No, they can't legally use an adult white female's voice that might be mistaken for Johansson's in their product and imply it has anything to do with Johansson's performance in the movie _Her_.
So... Smart tweet there, Sam. Really smart.
(I don't quite get why the Techbro - venture capitalist sphere is so enamored with this guy. From all I've seen reported about him, he seems not only a grade-A arsehole, but dumb as a fucking brick. But maybe they identify with that.)
