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Scarlett Johansson may be the latest artist to sue Sam Altman-led OpenAI. The reason? OpenAI apparently used her voice for their AI voice assistant, despite her clear refusal to be a part of the project.
OpenAI made some massive headlines last week thanks to its GPT-4o powered ChatGPT, and the demos it showed. The biggest takeaway from these videos was the conversational interface that ChatGPT got. Keen-eyed observers noticed that the voice assistant that OpenAI’s employees were using, Sky, sounded a lot like the AI assistant in the movie Her, played by Scarlett Johansson.
Furthermore, what made things more suspicious was the constant reference to the film during their demos, which led people to believe that the AI model Johansson was playing, indeed had a crucial role in the development of GPT-4o.
As per a report by the Wired, Johansson claims that OpenAI had reached out to her last September and asked her if she would be interested in providing ChatGPT’s new voice. However, she refused to be a part of the project. Naturally then, when she, with the rest of the world, found out how eerily similar Sky sounded to the AI robot in Her, Johansson was taken aback.
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/scar...oice-for-gpt-4o-powered-chatgpt-13773080.html
