1. I'd be amazed if it was actually her and not her lawyer/agency

2. Yeah fuck em, shit like this without consent should be (/is?) illegal

The developer is called "convert software", which is a pretty vague name. This developer/team could be anywhere in the world.

Joan Is Awful coming soon to a reality near you

good for her, sucks this sort of stuff has to be dealt with already. A.I. tech has developed wayyy faster than I thought

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against an AI app developer for using her name and likeness in an online ad, according to a report from Variety.

As reported by Variety, the 22-second ad showed Johansson behind the scenes while filming Black Widow, where she actually says “What’s up guys?

It’s Scarlett and I want you to come with me.” But then, the ad transitions away from Johansson, while an AI-generated voice meant to sound like the actress states: “It’s not limited to avatars only.

At the very bottom of the ad, Variety reports that Convert Software — the developer behind the app — included text that reads: “Images produced by Lisa AI.

It has nothing to do with this person.” Representatives for Johansson tell Variety that the actress was never a spokesperson for the app and that her attorney, Kevin Yorn, “handled the situation in a legal capacity.”

Neither Yorn nor Convert Software responded to The Verge’s request for comment about the nature of the legal action.

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I hope it wasn't some shitty Chinese mobile game. They rip off stuff constantly and just keep getting away with it.

There are people out there who sound a lot like SJ and you could probably clone their voice a lot cheaper. I worked with one and it was always uncanny.

Said AI app must have been capitalising on the fact that Scarlet Johansson voiced an AI in a movie before. Lol.

Feel badly for her. First she had to take the studio to court over Black Widow and now this.

Man, I misunderstood the headline. I thought the AI had created a likeness of her voice, and SJ was going after them for that.

Which begs the question, just how unique are our voices? There's being distinct, and then there's being literally one of a kind.

Very true, and along the lines of what I was thinking.

But it wouldn't surprise me if there were a way to establish a voice print. In fact, isn't that already a thing? Even if it is a little rough around the edges, it wouldn't surprise me if we were even closer to a higher reliability than thought.

With or without that, consider the copyright infringement suits for someone wanting to protect their song, melody, or whatever. Someone could poke at the 8 keys of a toy piano, and if a music artist's legal team felt it sounded close enough to the original? The ol' beatdown-by-seeking-damages trick if not a cease and desist order.

Anyway. If someone has enough money and too much time, they'll make a case out of anything.

Futile.

AI bad! There's definitely much worse human made stuff with her likeness on the internet. But there's more money in suing a company than an individual making 3DHentai at home.