Scarlett Johansson "Angered" By OpenAI Chatbot Voice That Sounds "Eerily" Like Her
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OpenAI stated on X (formerly Twitter) that the AI voice will be put on hold while the company responds to "questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT."
Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson said that she was "shocked, angered and in disbelief" after Sam Altman's OpenAI launched a chatbot with an "eerily similar" voice to hers, as per a report in BBC. The actress said that she had previously declined the company's request for her voice to be used in their new ChatGPT 4.0 chatbot, which reads the material to users aloud.
Since the AI chatbot named Sky debuted last week, many users were quick to draw parallels between the chatbot's tone and Scarlett Johansson's in the 2013 movie 'Her'.
OpenAI stated on X (formerly Twitter) that the AI voice will be put on hold while the company responds to "questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT." The Sky voice was "not an imitation" of Ms Johansson's, the company wrote in a blog post. They added that it was recorded by a separate professional actor, whose name they would not disclose to protect her privacy.
