Scarlett Johansson does NOT need to be become an AI chatbot… And he or she ain’t about to let ChatGPT use a knockoff model of her voice for theirs!
In a prolonged assertion launched by her rep on Tuesday, the Avengers actress accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of pursuing a voice for ChatGPT’s newest system that sounds just like hers… a little bit too comparable. She started by explaining how, months in the past, she declined his supply to be his robotic voice! She wrote:
“Final September, I acquired a suggestion from Sam Altman, who needed to rent me to voice the present ChatGPT 4.0 system. He advised me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I might bridge the hole between tech corporations and creatives and assist shoppers to really feel comfy with the seismic shift regarding people and AI. He stated he felt that my voice can be comforting to individuals.
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However she wasn’t :
“After a lot consideration and for private causes, I declined the supply. 9 months later, my associates, household and most people all famous how a lot the latest system named ‘Sky’ appeared like me.”
Should you haven’t heard it, take a hear for yourselves (beneath):
That sounds SO very similar to her, proper?! The 39-year-old continued:
“After I heard the launched demo, I used to be shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily just like mine that my closest associates and information retailers couldn’t inform the distinction.”
And shockingly, the AI CEO even appeared to insinuate the voice’s similarity to that of Scarlett’s in 2013’s Her, by which she voiced an AI chatbot. Scarlett wrote:
“Mr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single phrase “her” — a reference to the movie by which I voiced a chat system, Samantha, who varieties an intimate relationship with a human.”
It’s true! As of this writing, the tweet remains to be up! And keep in mind, that wasn’t earlier than asking her. That was months after the rejection! Looks as if he knew what he was doing — and made it clear to everybody else, too!
her
— Sam Altman (@sama) May 13, 2024
WTF!!!
And apparently, he got here knocking on her door AGAIN simply earlier than the ChatGPT system dropped:
“Two days earlier than the ChatGPT 4.0 demo was launched, Mr. Altman contacted my agent, asking me to rethink. Earlier than we might join, the system was on the market.”
Wait, TWO DAYS?? Absolutely he didn’t plan to have her report every part that rapidly… So is the supposition right here that he may need used her voice already? The identical method AI steals every part from the web? Kinda appears that method!
The Lucy star defined her authorized workforce was attending to the underside of it:
“Because of their actions, I used to be compelled to rent authorized counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAI, setting out what that they had accomplished and asking them to element the precise course of by which they created the ‘Sky; voice. Consequently, OpenAI reluctantly agreed to take down the ‘Sky’ voice.”
All she requested was they “element the precise course of” by which they made it, and as an alternative of doing that they DELETED IT?? Man, that doesn’t look responsible in any respect, huh?
ScarJo concluded her assertion:
“In a time after we are all grappling with deepfakes and the safety of our personal likeness, our personal work, our personal identities, I consider these are questions that deserve absolute readability. I sit up for decision within the type of transparency and the passage of applicable laws to assist be certain that particular person rights are protected.”
That is so WILD!!! And SO creepy!
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