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Can we please stop posting this case every third comment in these threads? Y'all learned about Midler v. Ford for the first time a couple days ago and now are just parroting it without actually even understanding what that case entailed.

Midler v. Ford is about hiring an impersonator to imitate Midler's distinctive voice and sing her own song. It's a clear case of trying to get people to not be able to tell Midler wasn't actually involved.

The details here are much different. ScarJo was hired for the role of "conversational AI assistant" in Her. As a young white American woman with a pleasant voice, she fit the role well and matched what people expected of the archetype, and brought some starpower to the movie. OpenAI is building a real-life conversational AI assistant, and as anyone would expect wanted a young white American woman with a pleasant voice to fulfill the archetype, for the exact same reason ScarJo was hired for Her in the first place. They hired one and integrated her voice, but also thought it'd be epic if they got ScarJo to also reprise the role. She declined, so they just went solely with the independent woman's voice.

Like a lot of people are saying, Sky also very much sounds similar to Rashida Jones if she were to have played an AI assistant. *Distinct*, but certainly *similar*. Rather than sounding like any one person, Sky's voice exists in a category where a lot of people will naturally sound similar. Especially because Sky is clearly attempting to sound as "vanilla" as you can get; as uncontroversial and "standard American" of a voice as possible. And, surprise, surprise, that's also what ScarJo did in Her, as that is already established as what is culturally expected of an AI assistant (and really, just assistants in general). It's the equivalent of the Transatlantic accent of the 21st century. And honestly, I don't hear *any* of ScarJo's "girl-next-door hoarseness" in Sky's voice; just the overall tone is similar.

Just seeing "OMG, they hired someone and they sounded similar and lost the case!!" is incredibly misleading, I would almost argue deliberately at this point.

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text Can we please stop posting this case every third comment in these threads? Y'all learned about Midler v. Ford for the first time a couple days ago and now are just parroting it without actually even understanding what that case entailed. Midler v. Ford is about hiring an impersonator to imitate Midler's distinctive voice and sing her own song. It's a clear case of trying to get people to not be able to tell Midler wasn't actually involved. The details here are much different. ScarJo was hired …
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