OpenAI apologizes to Johansson, denies voice based on her
The Peninsula
San Francisco: OpenAI chief Sam Altman apologized Tuesday to Scarlett Johansson after the movie star said she was shocked by a new synthetic voice r...
San Francisco: OpenAI chief Sam Altman apologized Tuesday to Scarlett Johansson after the movie star said she was "shocked" by a new synthetic voice released by the ChatGPT-maker, but he insisted the voice was not based on hers.
At issue is "Sky," a voice OpenAI featured last week in the release of its more humanlike GPT-4o artificial intelligence technology.
In a demo, Sky was at times funny, seamlessly jumping from one topic to the next, unlike most existing chatbots.
The technology -- and sound of the voice -- quickly drew similarities to the Johansson-voiced AI character in the 2013 film "Her."
Altman has previously pointed to the Spike Jonze-directed movie -- a cautionary tale about the future in which a man falls in love with an AI chatbot -- as inspiration for where he would like AI interactions to go.
