Current Events > Scarlett Johansson addresses OpenAI allegedly using her voice against her wishes

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Here is Johanssons full statement:

Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system. He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and Al. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people. After much consideration and for personal reasons, declined the offer.

Nine months later, 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.

Mr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single word her- a reference to the film in which | voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate relationship with a human.

Two days before the ChatGPT 4.0 demo was released, Mr. Altman contacted my agent, asking me to reconsider. Before we could connect, the system was out there. As a result of their actions, I was forced to hire legal counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAl, setting out what they had done and asking them to detail the exact process by which they created the Sky voice.

Consequently, OpenAl reluctantly agreed to take down the Sky voice. In a time when we are all grappling with deepfakes and the protection of our own likeness, our own work, our own identities, I believe these are questions that deserve absolute clarity. I look forward to resolution in the form of transparency and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected.

https://www.thewrap.com/scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-sky-voice-sam-altman-open-ai/

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It's not surprising because of other dumb decisions they've made, but you would think that for just greedy business preservation purposes you wouldn't do things like this if you were Sam Altman. Like he would have been better off making the model *without* ever talking to Scarlett Johansson

With how this turned out it i wouldn't be surprised if they DID actually create and train the voice with every single voice clip they could get of Scarlett Johansson to create it

But ya, Machine Learning is scummy as hell

They hired a voice actress that sounds like Scarlett but they're not using her voice.

Raiden2909 posted...

With how this turned out it i wouldn't be surprised if they DID actually create and train the voice with every single voice clip they could get of Scarlett Johansson to create it

But ya, Machine Learning is scummy as hell

all it'll take is a couple generations of AI learning from AI, and the legality of it will be so confusing that lawsuits probably won't even be effective.

Anteaterking posted...

It's not surprising because of other dumb decisions they've made, but you would think that for just greedy business preservation purposes you wouldn't do things like this if you were Sam Altman. Like he would have been better off making the model *without* ever talking to Scarlett Johansson

You've never heard the old business saying "it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission"?

This new world sucks.

Imagine watching Her and thinking "yeah that's exactly what we want"