{"id":1035,"date":"2024-05-31T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2024-06-01T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T19:45:12","slug":"scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-voice-after-turning-him-down-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-voice-after-turning-him-down-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Scarlett Johansson “shocked and angered” over OpenAi’s chatbot with voice “Eerily Similar to Mine” after saying no to Sam Altman both times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nScarlett Johansson Says She Was \u2018Shocked\u2019 and \u2018Angered\u2019 Over OpenAI\u2019s Use of a Voice That Was \u2018Eerily Similar to Mine\u2019<\/a>
\nActor Scarlett Johansson said she turned down OpenAI\u2018s request for her to lend her voice to a conversational ChatGPT system \u2014 and that she was \u201cshocked\u201d and \u201cangered\u201d that the company went ahead and used a voice that sounded very similar to hers anyway.

\n\nJohansson, in a statement provided to Variety, said her lawyers contacted OpenAI to have the voice of Sky, one of the new voices in the GPT-4o chatbot, pulled down. OpenAI introduced the Sky voice, which sounded very like that of Johansson\u2019s disembodied AI companion in Spike Jonze\u2019s 2013 movie \u201cHer,\u201d in a demo of GPT-4o. The company earlier Monday said it would \u201cpause\u201d the use of the Sky voice.

\n\nJohansson said she had been contacted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in September 2023 about the company hiring her to provide the voice for ChatGPT 4.0. She said she declined for \u201cpersonal reasons.\u201d \u201cWhen 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,\u201d Johansson said. \u201cMr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single word \u2018her\u2019 \u2014 a reference to the film in which I voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate relationship with a human.\u201d According to Johansson, two days before OpenAI staged the ChatGPT 4.0 demo, Altman contacted her agent, \u201casking me to reconsider. Before we could connect, the system was out there.\u201d

\n\nJohansson called for legislation that would protect individuals from having their name, image or likeness misappropriated. \u201cIn 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,\u201d she said. \u201cI look forward to resolution in the form of transparency and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected.\u201d

\n\nScarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI\u2019s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her<\/a>
\nLast week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of an A.I. system in the movie \u201cHer.\u201d

\n\nDays before OpenAI demonstrated its new, flirty voice assistant last week, the actress Scarlett Johansson said, Sam Altman, the company\u2019s chief executive, called her agent and asked that she consider licensing her voice for a virtual assistant. It was his second request to the actress in the past year, Ms. Johansson said in a statement on Monday, adding that the reply both times was no. Despite those refusals, Ms. Johansson said, OpenAI used a voice that sounded \u201ceerily similar to mine.\u201d She has hired a lawyer and asked OpenAI to stop using a voice it called \u201cSky.\u201d

\n\nScarlett Johansson’s Agent Tells OpenAI to ‘Slow Down’ to Ensure Products Get Built ‘Transparently, Ethically and Responsibly’<\/a>
\n“How these companies align with the actual individuals and creators is what’s key here — the verification of authenticity and receiving consent, and remuneration for consent,” CAA’s Lourd said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal Thursday. “It’s not too late for these companies to slow down and put processes in place to ensure that the products that are being built are built transparently, ethically and responsibly,” Lourd added.

\n\nOpenAI\u2019s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded<\/a>
\nThe entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.

\n\nIn July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI\u2019s chief scientist and one of the company\u2019s cofounders, was named as the colead of this new team. OpenAI said the team would receive 20 percent of its computing power.

\n\nNow OpenAI\u2019s \u201csuperalignment team\u201d is no more, the company confirms. That comes after the departures of several researchers involved, Tuesday\u2019s news that Sutskever was leaving the company, and the resignation of the team\u2019s other colead. The group\u2019s work will be absorbed into OpenAI\u2019s other research efforts.

\n\nSutskever\u2019s departure made headlines because although he\u2019d helped CEO Sam Altman start OpenAI in 2015 and set the direction of the research that led to ChatGPT, he was also one of the four board members who fired Altman in November. Altman was restored as CEO five chaotic days later after a mass revolt by OpenAI staff and the brokering of a deal in which Sutskever and two other company directors left the board.

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