05-21-2024, 10:47 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm559l5g529o
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has said she was left "shocked" and "angered" after OpenAI launched a chatbot with an "eerily similar" voice to her own.
The actress said she had previously turned down an approach by the company to voice its new chatbot, which reads text aloud to users.
When the new model debuted last week commentators were quick to draw comparisons between the chatbot's "Sky" voice and Johansson's in the 2013 film Her.
OpenAI said on Monday that it would remove the voice, but insisted that it was not meant to be an "imitation" of the star.
However, Johansson accused the company, and its founder Sam Altman, of deliberately copying her voice, in a statement seen by the BBC on Monday evening.
Yeah, OpenAI really shouldn't have done this, after she'd explicitly refused permission to use her voice. Even if the voice they used wasn't exactly the same as hers, it was so close that her friends and family couldn't tell the difference.
I'm glad they stopped this in the end - and I hope this leads to clear regulations on how AI can use people's voices.
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has said she was left "shocked" and "angered" after OpenAI launched a chatbot with an "eerily similar" voice to her own.
The actress said she had previously turned down an approach by the company to voice its new chatbot, which reads text aloud to users.
When the new model debuted last week commentators were quick to draw comparisons between the chatbot's "Sky" voice and Johansson's in the 2013 film Her.
OpenAI said on Monday that it would remove the voice, but insisted that it was not meant to be an "imitation" of the star.
However, Johansson accused the company, and its founder Sam Altman, of deliberately copying her voice, in a statement seen by the BBC on Monday evening.
Yeah, OpenAI really shouldn't have done this, after she'd explicitly refused permission to use her voice. Even if the voice they used wasn't exactly the same as hers, it was so close that her friends and family couldn't tell the difference.
I'm glad they stopped this in the end - and I hope this leads to clear regulations on how AI can use people's voices.
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