Her voice is not really unique in anyway nor are her looks. While she may not use this as a cudgel against anyone who looks like or sounds like her other artists will.

While I am not opposed to protections for all people, I am opposed to just the wealthy getting this privilege through trademark.

It’s a GOOD THING AI companies RESPECT Trademarks and Copyrights!

I feel like your likeness should be protected by default, is it not?

To be clear, not under copy protection but is there some other protection from impersonation such as fraud?

If someone used my face and voice to make money without so much as asking me I’d be pissed off too.

In 2023, Scarlett Johansson’s attorney demanded that an AI app stop using her likeness in an advertisement. The actor also called out OpenAI in 2024 for using an “eerily similar” voice to hers for their GPT-4o chatbot despite having declined the company’s request to provide her voice. OpenAI subsequently announced it would no longer be using the voice, but did not indicate why.

In 2024, Tom Hanks called out the “multiple ads over the internet falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs.”

Look at this shit. This is illegal as fuck. Imagine being a doctor and some RFK-type podcaster uses your name, face and voice to promote some hack cure and destroys your reputation.

And they ASKED Johansson and she said no and they still did it. Fuckin AI motherfuckers. No shame