Scarlett Johansson He didn't want to give his vote to it ChatGPT. Despite the insistence of the company OpenAI, developer of the conversation robot, and its CEO, Sam Altman, the actress refused to participate in the project “after much consideration and for personal reasons”. But in the end, it didn't matter because the company ended up hiring her against her will anyway, as the company explained in a statement.
Johansson points out that when she heard Sky's voice, a voice was developed by Open AI for ChatGPT and which was shown to the world last week during the presentation event of GPT-4oshe felt “surprised, angry and in disbelief that Mr. Altman sought (to create) a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that neither my closest friends nor the media could tell the difference,” the actress said.
OpenAI's first approach to Johansson took place last September: “(Altman) said he felt my voice would be comforting to people.” Johansson also points out that for the mogul, using the actress' voice would help users more easily accept the “seismic” changes coming from the accelerated development of artificial intelligence (AI).
Despite the denial, Altman contacted the actress' representative again just two days before GPT-4o's presentation in hopes that she would reconsider. No such luck, and then came the surprise at the OpenAI event: “As a result of their actions, I was forced to engage legal counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAI, detailing what they had done and telling them asked to describe the exact process by which they created the Sky voice. Something the company did yesterday, in addition to removing the voice from ChatGPT “reluctantly,” according to Johansson.
Altman wanted his own Samantha
The interpreter was responsible for giving voice to the conversation assistant Samantha, main character of the film 'Her' in which a writer with social problems eventually develops a romantic relationship with the AI-powered application. During the presentation of Sky's voice at the OpenAI event, company employees, including Altman himself, referred to the tape on social networks. The director launched a tweet saying simply, “Hair.”
In the statement, the actress also refers to some of the major threats posed by AI: “At a time when we are all dealing with deepfakes and the protection of our own image, our own work, our own identity, I believe these are questions that deserve absolute clarity. “I look forward to a transparent resolution and the passage of appropriate legislation to ensure that individual rights are protected.”