tweeted <\/a>the word \u201cHer\u201d following the company\u2019s event. <\/p>\nTechCrunch confirmed that Johansson released a statement later on Monday saying that OpenAI approached her in September about supplying the voice, which was first reported by NPR correspondent Bobby Allyn. In the statement, she said that she declined \u201cafter much consideration and for personal reasons\u201d and was \u201cshocked\u201d when she heard the released demo.<\/p>\n
The statement also says that she was \u201cforced to hire legal counsel\u201d and that the company \u201creluctantly agreed\u201d to change the Sky voice. <\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s demo last week aimed to showcase the chatbot\u2019s enhanced conversational abilities, but went viral after the sultry voice giggled at almost everything an OpenAI employee was saying. At one point, the chatbot told the employee: \u201cWow, that\u2019s quite the outfit you\u2019ve got on.\u201d At another point, the chatbot said \u201cStop it, you\u2019re making me blush\u201d\u00a0after receiving a compliment.<\/p>\n
In its blog post, OpenAI says it wants its chatbots\u2019 voices to sound \u201capproachable\u201d and to \u201cinspire trust.\u201d It also wants them to have a \u201cwarm, engaging, confidence-inspiring, charismatic voice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Going forward, OpenAI says it plans to \u201cintroduce additional voices in ChatGPT to better match the diverse interests and preferences of users.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johansson\u2019s statement in full: <\/p>\n
\u201cLast September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system. He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.<\/p>\n
After much consideration and for personal reasons, I declined the offer. Nine months later, my friends, family and the general public all noted how much the newest system named \u201cSky\u201d sounded like me.<\/p>\n
When 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. Mr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single word \u201cher\u201d \u2013 a reference to the film in which I voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate relationship with a human.<\/p>\n
Two days before the ChatGPT 4.0 demo was released, Mr. Altman contacted my agent, asking me to reconsider. Before we could connect, the system was out there.<\/p>\n
As a result of their actions, I was forced to hire legal counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAI, setting out what they had done and asking them to detail the exact process by which they created the \u201cSky\u201d voice. Consequently, OpenAI reluctantly agreed to take down the \u201cSky\u201d voice.<\/p>\n
In 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. I look forward to resolution in the form of transparency and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected.\u201d<\/p>\n
OpenAI shared the following statement from Altman: \u201cThe voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson\u2019s, and it was never intended to resemble hers. We cast the voice actor behind Sky\u2019s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have paused using Sky\u2019s voice in our products. We are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn\u2019t communicate better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Update: This story originally published at 8 a.m. PT Monday and was updated to include Johansson\u2019s and Altman\u2019s statements.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is removing one of the voices used by ChatGPT. Users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson, the company announced on Monday, and Johansson herself released a statement saying she hired legal council to inquire about the Sky voice and get exact details about how it was developed. Sky is now being paused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}