Famous actress Scarlett Johansson, in a recent interview, said,OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Could Make a Good Marvel Villain” said.
Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have had serious falling outs over the past few months. So what exactly happened? Assistant voice named “Sky” used in the new generation voice communication infrastructure prepared for ChatGPT, It has been directly likened to Scarlett Johansson’s voice in the 2013 film “Her.” In that remarkable film, Johansson voiced a digital assistant and it was thought that OpenAI copied this voice. In fact, many comparison videos and special news were shared for this, such as the one below. Later, OpenAI, who wanted to clarify this, She stated that the voice was not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson, but decided to stop using it anyway. In the new generation voice communication infrastructure prepared for ChatGPT Five different sounds are offered: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper, and Sky. In this respect, “Each of the five different voices you hear was carefully selected through an extensive five-month process involving professional voice actors, talent agents, casting directors and industry consultants.” The company made the statement, He stated that they evaluated 400 different applications to choose five different voices.
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About the process, “We believe that AI assistant voices should not intentionally mimic the voices of celebrities. In this context, Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson, belongs to a different professional actor who uses his natural speaking voice. We cannot share the names of our voice actors to protect their privacy.” The company responded quickly to Johansson’s statement.
Johansson initially accused OpenAI of copying her voice for one of its voice assistants on ChatGPT, despite her not explicitly giving permission. ““Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman who wanted to hire me to voice the ChatGPT 4.0 system.” Johansson said, He also said that he rejected the offer due to personal reasons.. On top of all this, when you see the demo that OpenAI made Johansson said she was shocked, angry and couldn’t believe the similarity in voicethat he contacted his representative two days before Sam Altman introduced GPT-4o and He wanted him to rethink the sound issue.but before it had a chance to respond the system still He said that he released it with a similar sound.
OpenAI made another statement on this issue: “We had selected a voice actor for Sky’s voice before we even reached out to Johansson. However, out of respect for Johansson, we have stopped using Sky’s voice in our products. We apologize to Johansson for not communicating better.” he had said.
On top of all this To Maureen Dowd of The New York Times giving an interview Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman brings a good Marvel villain with a robotic arm (movie character) He said it could happen. Johansson stated that she wanted to stay away from this process and was very angry with the latest situation, and made a personal comment about artificial intelligence. found: “I think AI technologies are advancing faster than fragile human egos can handle, and you’re seeing the effects of that everywhere, especially among young people. This technology is coming at us like a thousand-foot wave.”
Scarlett Johansson vs ChatGPT Plus’s AI voice “Sky” pic.twitter.com/J8NDwVVIdR
— KIRBY FERGUSON (@remixeverything) January 8, 2024
and with video mode!! pic.twitter.com/cpjKokEGVd
— Sam Altman (@sama) May 13, 2024