Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, the "vibecession," plastic in our balls

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
I just want to be clear here, I'm trying to do a docket, and we have to put the kibosh on this insanity of the soap opera that is becoming OpenAI, Sacks, because every week, it's three, four, five stories. Have you seen what's happened this week?

**David Sacks** (0:17)
Yeah, of course.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:18)
Got to catch the audience up here. Let's catch the audience up on what's happened here.
This week on General AI Hospital, is Sam Altman's job security in jeopardy? Whose data was stolen this time?

**David Friedberg** (0:34)
What did he say? Why isn't he talking about it?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:38)
And with our special guest, will our special guest get her revenge? General AI Hospital, brought to you by the Drama Queens at OpenAI.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:51)
Who made that? That was great. Did you make that?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:53)
Yeah, that was me.

**David Sacks** (0:54)
10 out of 10

**Jason Calacanis** (0:55)
That was my idea, but Nick's and Lon's execution. So shout out to Lon Harris and Nick Calacanis.

**David Sacks** (1:00)
You finally landed the plane.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:02)
Broken clock is right twice a day.

**David Friedberg** (1:04)
Took four years. That was awesome.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:27)
But seriously, there was a big drama, Sacks. I don't know if you saw this, but you couldn't miss it with the Scar Joe.
So they made an emergency, they had an emergency meeting, got all the developers together, and they've reset. They took Scarlett Johansson out and they got a new person. I think arguably better. I'm Friedberg, I'm curious your take on this. It's a better-

**SPEAKER_5** (1:46)
Hey, Judge GBD, how's it going?

**David Sacks** (1:48)
Good, good. Yeah, good. What's going on?

**SPEAKER_5** (1:51)
I'm doing fine. I'm going to be a father real soon, and I think I can have your help with some dad jokes.
I'm going to tell you a joke, and you tell me if it passes as a dad joke.

**David Sacks** (2:03)
I've never done that before.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:04)
All right. What do you call a giant pile of kittens?

**David Sacks** (2:09)
Give it to me.
No, it doesn't quite land. All right.

**David Friedberg** (2:15)
Turn it in, folks.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:16)
If you want, you can switch to Saxie Poo. So just go into OpenAI.

**David Sacks** (2:20)
You're saying they stole my voice now?

**Jason Calacanis** (2:22)
Yeah, they stole yours. Go into OpenAI, go to Voices, and then just pick Saxie Poo. It's right there between Putin and Tucker. Putin, Saxie Poo, Tucker. You can find all your favorite MAGA guests on the number one MAGA program, All-In podcast. Here we go. All right, we're off to a strong start here. Everybody's in a good mood.
Let's keep the good times rolling here, and let's go over the ScarJo saga. To recap, if you're living under a rock, this week, it came out that OpenAI, specifically Sam, had contacted Scarlett Johansson multiple times about lending her voice for one of OpenAI's chat box.
Obviously, you know, she famously was the voice, Samantha, in the awesome film, Her. And according to ScarJo, Altman told her she could, quote, bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI, and that her voice, quote, would be comforting to people. Although she declined the offer, OpenAI released a chat bot named Sky, which had a similar voice to ScarJo's. According to ScarJo, her friends and family thought the voice was her. She released a statement, yada, yada. On May 13th, the day OpenAI launched chat GPT-40 Omni, which we talked about last week, Altman tweeted her a reference to the film. Obviously, now ScarJo is threatening legal action against OpenAI. Altman put out a statement apologizing and saying the voice was never intended to resemble hers. His quote, we're sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn't communicate better. OpenAI showed documents to The Washington Post that confirmed the voice was provided by a different actress who is anonymous.
Post reporters also spoke to the unnamed actress's agent who confirmed the story.
I guess, Sacks, you sent us a comparison clip. Maybe we start there and see what we think.

**David Sacks** (4:15)
Yeah, do you guys think they sound the same?

**SPEAKER_6** (4:17)
I can understand and generate human-like text pretty well.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:21)
It really depends on what you're looking for in an assistant.

**David Friedberg** (4:24)
What specific tasks.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:25)
When I was like, oh, sexuality, like I was like, opened my eyes to like some other thing. Samantha.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:36)
Where'd you get that name from?

**SPEAKER_6** (4:38)
I gave it to myself, actually.