Scarlett Johansson has deep concern over ChatGPT's voice, which claims she sounds like her — its creator says it's not modeled after her

As reported by Npr, Johansson's lawyers contacted OpenAI to elaborate on how they developed the voice named "Sky". The company published 5 such reports on 19/1.

The report states, "We believe that AI voices should not intentionally mimic the distinctive voices of celebrities. To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talent.

One of the reasons why Johansson is plagued by similarities to Sky's voice is because OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously contacted the actress for her voice to be used in ChatGPT voice assistant

"After a lot of consideration, for personal reasons, I rejected the offer," Johansson said.

"I was shocked, angry and Mr. could not believe. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my close friends and the press could not discern the difference."

she continued, "At a time when we are all working on deep fakes and the protection of our own likeness, our own work, our own identity, I believe these are questions that deserve absolute clarity.

Meanwhile, Altman said in a statement to Npr that Sky's voice actors were cast before the company reached out to the actress.

The broader context of this story is Johansson's role in the 2013 film Her, voiced by an AI assistant in which the protagonist, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falls in love.

In an interview with the Salesforce blog in 2023, Altman admitted that this is his favorite movie about AI. "The idea of a conversational language interface was incredibly prophetic," he said. "It's unfair to dunk an old sci-fi movie for every part they've gone wrong. It's amazing the amount they get right, like her interface. But it's great that Hollywood has some new tropes [AI got rogue].

This year, 5/13, Altman just wrote "her" on X, and his company live-streamed a demo of Sky's voice as part of the GPT-4o update. He did not elaborate on what this meant.

In response, one critic wrote, "Sam, 'Her' (2012) [NB: The film was actually relased in 2013] was intended as a grim dystopia, a warning story of alienation by ai.

"Not as a business strategy that @OpenAI imposes on humanity."