American actress Scarlett Johansson was suspicious of the dishonest approach of OpenAI, which, according to Johansson, introduced into its artificial intelligence a voice “eerily similar” to her own. The star demanded that the technology company reveal the process of creating the voice.
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In early May, OpenAI unveiled an updated GPT model, a multimodal AI model that can analyze sounds, images, and text in real time. The updated version is called GPT-4o.
As The Verge wrote, one of the virtual assistant voices in GPT-4o closely resembles the voice of the character in Spike Jonze’s 2013 film “Her.” According to the plot, the hero of the film during a difficult divorce communicates with a voice assistant named Samantha and falls in love with the operating system. Samantha herself was played by Scarlett Johansson for the film.
The Verge also noted that the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, may have hinted at the similarity between the voices of the film’s character, Jonze, and GPT-4o’s assistant. After the product launch, he made a post on X with the single word “Her.”
As Johansson said, the CEO of developer ChatGPT approached the actress in the fall of 2023 and offered to use her voice, but was rejected. A few days before the presentation of GPT-4o, according to the actress, Altman invited her again to think about the idea.
“When I heard the demo, I was shocked, angry and in disbelief that Mr. Altman used a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and the media couldn’t tell the difference,” Johansson said.
The day before, May 20, OpenAI representatives announced their intention to discontinue use of Sky Voice. The reason for this decision was not specified.
A post on the company’s website, published on May 19, explains how experts selected the voices for ChatGPT.
“We believe that AI voices should not intentionally imitate a celebrity’s signature voice: Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson, but rather belongs to another professional actress,” the company clarified, adding that it does not reveal names. of the owners of the voices for privacy reasons. reasons.
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