Scarlett Johansson on Monday accused OpenAI of making a voice for the ChatGPT system that sounded “eerily related” to the actress after she declined to voice the chatbot herself.
Johansson made the feedback in a press release launched hours after the synthetic intelligence firm stated it was taking down the voice, referred to as ‘Sky.’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in a press release emailed to Reuters on Monday that Sky’s voice was not an imitation of Johansson, however belonged to a special skilled actress.
“The voice of Sky will not be Scarlett Johansson’s, and it was by no means meant to resemble hers. We solid the voice actor behind Sky’s voice earlier than any outreach to Ms. Johansson,” Altman stated.
“Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have now paused utilizing Sky’s voice in our merchandise. We’re sorry to Ms. Johansson that we did not talk higher.”
The combat over rights to actors’ voices and pictures has turn into a spotlight in Hollywood as studios take into account how you can use AI to create new leisure and because the computer-produced pictures and sounds turn into troublesome to differentiate from these of people.
Johansson within the assertion stated Altman had approached her final September and provided to rent her to voice a ChatGPT voice — a suggestion she declined.
“9 months later, my mates, household and most of the people all famous how a lot the most recent system named ‘Sky’ gave the impression of me,” she stated.
“After I heard the launched demo, I used to be shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily just like mine that my closest mates and information retailers couldn’t inform the distinction.”
Johansson added that Altman had “insinuated that the similarity was intentional” by tweeting a reference to “her,” the 2013 film a couple of man who develops a relationship with an AI assistant voiced by the actress.
Johansson’s word was printed by journalists from NPR and different information retailers. Her publicist additionally shared it with Reuters.
She stated that she had employed authorized counsel to ask in regards to the course of of making the voice.
OpenAI confirmed off its latest AI mannequin, referred to as GPT-4o, final week, with audio capabilities that allow customers communicate to the chatbot and procure real-time responses, marking a major development in additional reasonable sounding AI conversations.
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