Lawyers for actress Scarlett Johansson demanded from the AI laboratory OpenAI to reveal the process of creating the Sky assistant in ChatGPT, whose voice is “eerily similar” to the sound of a celebrity.
She made the statement hours after the startup suspended use of the assistant without explanation.
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow: pic.twitter.com/8ibMeLfqP8
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According to Johansson, the company's CEO suggested that this move would bridge the gap between technology companies and creative people. It will also help consumers “get comfortable with the seismic shift in people and AI,” Altman told the actress.
Johansson noted that she turned down the offer after “long consideration and for personal reasons.” However, when OpenAI demonstrated the GPT-4o model on May 13, “my friends, family and the general public commented on the similarity between the sound of the Sky system and my voice,” the celebrity added.
After the presentation of the “omnimodel,” the actress was “shocked and outraged.”
According to her, the head of OpenAI also contacted the celebrity's agent two days before the announcement of GPT-4o and asked to reconsider the decision. However, he still released the algorithm before the actress had a chance to respond, the statement said.
A startup representative said Engadgetthat “Sky's voice is not Johansson's and does not imitate her.”
“Out of respect for the actress,” the laboratory suspended the use of the assistant in its products.
On May 20, 2024, OpenAI put the Sky voice on pause, denying any resemblance to the movie star, and told on hiring voice actors to create virtual assistants.
According to Johansson, the company did this only after the celebrity hired lawyers who sent letters to Altman and OpenAI asking for an explanation of the process of creating the model.
The actress said that in a time of “fighting deepfakes and protecting human image, work and identity,” such issues deserve “absolute clarity.”
Previously, OpenAI and Microsoft were accused of “stealing millions” of copyrighted articles to train chatbots ChatGPT and Copilot.
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