Shocking: Some AI developers didn’t listen when a woman rejected their offer
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If you’ve been snoozing through the Scarlett Johansson-OpenAI drama this week, let me quickly catch you up:
If you’ve been snoozing through the Scarlett Johansson-OpenAI drama this week, let me quickly catch you up quickly: A woman rejected a man’s request, twice, and he responded like a child — demonstrating just one of the reasons the world needs to be skeptical of the people and companies profiting from their own breathless AI hype. Bear with me for the slightly longer version. Back in September, Scarlett Johansson, who played the hauntingly complex AI assistant in the 2013 Spike Jonze film “Her,” got a request from OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman. He wanted to hire Johansson to voice his company’s newest ChatGPT model, “Sky.” She said no. Several months later, just days before the product launched, he asked her to reconsider. But before she had a chance to say no a second time, OpenAI released the new model with a voice that sounded strikingly similar to Johansson’s. The AI’s debut was both mind-blowing and cringe-y. Mind-blowing because of the bot’s apparent sophistication and human-like qualities, and cringe-worthy given how uncomfortably flirty it sounded, like a caricature of a computer developer’s fantasy. Johansson quickly lawyered up, saying Monday she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” that Altman would use a voice “so eerily similar” to her own.
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