OpenAI Stops Use of Scarlett Johansson-Like Voice for 'Sky' on Voice Mode Feature

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are greedy pirates, capable of plundering intellectual property and the unique gifts of creative artists, photographers, musicians and writers.The material they use to inform AI operating systems is essentially stolen booty, scraped from anyone and everyone.Last week, OpenAI held a live demonstration to debut the new voices — Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky — of the company’s ChatGPT 4.0 system. Actress Scarlett Johansson thought Sky sounded familiar.

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Scarlett Johansson does NOT want to be turned into an AI chatbot… And she ain’t about to let ChatGPT use a knockoff version of her voice for theirs!

Scarlett Johansson has claimed OpenAI has used a similar voice to hers for ChatGPT, after she denied an offer to collaborate with them in the past.Johansson has claimed the company used her voice to create one if its ‘Voice Mode’ options, even after she declined an invitation from the company’s CEO, Sam Altman.In a statement shared on Monday (May 20), Johansson claimed that Altman sought to “hire” her “to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system,” saying that she “could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI.”Johansson declined the offer but when a new voice option named “Sky” arrived recently, Johansson claimed her family and friends contacted her commenting on the similarity of the voices.Her statement read: “My friends, family and the general public all noted how much the newest system named ‘Sky’ sounded like me.“When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference.

Scarlett Johansson is speaking out in response to OpenAI’s “Sky” voice character for ChatGPT, which sounds just like her.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Actor Scarlett Johansson said she turned down OpenAI‘s request for her to lend her voice to a conversational ChatGPT system — and that she was “shocked” and “angered” that the company went ahead and used a voice that sounded very similar to hers anyway. Johansson, in a statement provided to Variety, said her lawyers contacted OpenAI to have the voice of Sky, one of the new voices in the GPT-4o conversational chatbot release, pulled down. OpenAI introduced the Sky voice, which sounded very like that of Johansson’s disembodied AI companion in Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie “Her.” The company on Monday said it would “pause” the use of the Sky voice, and said the voice was supplied by another actor.

OpenAI is pulling an artificial intelligence voice that users compared with Scarlett Johansson’s, but the company insists it is “not an imitation” and that it “supports the creative community.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After many people noticed that one of the voices in OpenAI‘s voice-enabled chatbot sounded very much like that of Scarlett Johansson’s disembodied AI companion in Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie “Her,” the company is suspending the voice for the time being. The Johansson-soundalike voice, Sky, was part of OpenAI’s updated GPT-4o, which it launched last week.

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joke swap segment on the Weekend Update portion of the “Saturday Night Live” Season 49 finale on May 18.The pair each write offense jokes that they swap and read on-air, with no warning about what they have to say. Jost, 41, got tricked by Che, 41, into making a joke about Johansson, 39.“Oh god,” Jost said as he looked at the camera and saw an image of his wife that read, “ChatGPT.”While trying to hold back his laughter, Jost said: “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in ‘Her.’ Which I’ve never bothered to watch, because without that body, what’s the point of listening.”Jost covered his face with his hand after cracking the joke about Johansson.The live audience, meanwhile, laughed loudly and cheered.

Colin Jost had to put his wife Scarlett Johansson on blast during a joke swap with Michael Che on the May 18 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Colin Jost and Michael Che continued their Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” tradition of swapping jokes and writing zingers for each other to say.