Radio silence. Sky, one of the audio avatars of OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT, will lose its voice. Actress Scarlett Johansson accuses Sam Altman’s company of copying her vocal range. “ We heard questions about how we chose the voices for ChatGPT » said OpenAI, which undertook, on Monday 20 May, to rework the entry sky.
Two very different versions
“We are working to suspend the use of Sky while we respond to this », continued the company, which however denies the accusations against it, stating that it relied on the voices of various actresses to develop Sky. “Sky’s voice is in no way an imitation of Scarlett Johansson’s “.
The actress, however, provided a completely different version: “ Last September I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me as the voice of the current ChatGPT 4.0 system » he said, noting that he rejected the offer. “He said he thought my voice would comfort people »
It was when he discovered Sky’s voice, a few months later, that he noticed the plagiarism: “When I heard the release of the demo, I was shocked, angry and in disbelief that Mr. Altman had developed a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and the media couldn’t tell the difference. “.
According to the actress, “Mr. Altman even implied that the resemblance was intentional, tweeting just one word, ‘Her.’ “. However, Scarlett Johansson plays the voice of the artificial intelligence system in the film His, which the creators of ChatGPT have openly declared they were inspired by. Scarlett Johansson would therefore be” was forced to hire legal counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAI, (…)”, leading to cancellation “reluctantly” of the voice sky.
It is not the first time that the actress has dealt with artificial intelligence. Last November, she continued Lisa AI application : 90s yearbook and avatar that he had used his image without permission to promote his software on X.
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