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The actress who played the artificial intelligence His By Spike Jonze, ChatGPT accuses the company of deliberately copying his voice in its new software.
“Shocked, angry and in disbelief.” These are Scarlett Johansson’s words after discovering her voice in the new ChatGPT software. The 39-year-old actress explains that she was contacted by OpenAI in September 2023. “I got an offer from Sam Altman who wanted to hire me as the voice for the current ChatGPT 4.0 system because he thought my voice would be soothing. people, but I declined this offer,” the actress assured in a press release sent to Reuters on May 20, 2024. Recall that the actress gave her voice to artificial intelligence in the 2013 film. His by Spike Jonze, where the hero, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falls in love with the voice of a computer robot.
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Scarlett Johansson expresses her surprise at finding Sky in ChatGPT ‘voices’. “My family and the general public have all noticed how much the new system called Sky is like me. (…) When I heard the demo released, I was shocked, angry, and in disbelief that Sam Altman had developed a voice that sounded so eerily like me that my closest friends and the media couldn’t tell the difference.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied this finding in a statement. She claims that Sky’s voice was not an imitation of Johansson, but belonged to another professional actress.
“Sky’s voice is not Scarlett Johansson’s voice, and it was never intended to sound like her.” And to specify that Sky’s voice translator was chosen before contacting the actress. The chief executive, however, said he had stopped using Sky’s voice in his products “out of respect for Mr Johansson”.
Scarlett Johansson, for her part, says she wants to take legal action against OpenAI and Sam Altman. The latter also asks for a detailed explanation of how Sky’s voice was designed.
Source: Le Figaro
