There's already case law on these sorts of shenanigans: Midler v. Ford Motor Co., so Altman was either ignorant of this, in which case OpenAI needs new counsel, or he knew and did it anyway, because fuck you Scarlett Johannson. I'm pretty sure it's the latter.
https://gizmodo.com/openai-pausing-chatgpt-4o-scarlett-johansson-voice-1851488261
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