OpenAI CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sam Altman has actually created his very first social talk about the Scarlett Johansson voice dispute, though he chose to primarily bypass inquiries regarding the “Sky” chatbot that several consumers thought seemed like the starlet.
Altman was actually questioned due to the Atlantic Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Thompson (whose business reduced an offer along with OpenAI previously today) at the AI completely Peak Thursday, thrown due to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations company concentrated on interactions problems.
Thompson talked to Altman regarding Johansson’s problems regarding the OpenAI voice.
“It’s not her voice, it’s not supposed to be. I’m sorry for the confusion, clearly you think it is,” Altman informed Thompson. “People are going to have different opinions about how much voices sound alike, but we don’t. It’s not her voice.”
Altman included that he was actually “not sure what else to say.” Thompson performed not request a follow-up inquiry regarding Johansson.
The dispute started after OpenAI openly demoed a voice feature for ChatGPT, along with some of the vocals, “Sky,” appearing identical toJohansson OpenAI would certainly take place to take the voice.
Johansson later on discharged a prolonged declaration through which she uncovered that Altman had actually been actually making an effort to hire her to provide her voice to the task given that autumn of 2023, and also met wiggle out to her broker simply times just before the OpenAI demonstration.
“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,” Johansson cooperated a declaration. “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 ‘Sky’ sounded like me.”
Altman had actually likewise twittered update “her,” throughout the demonstration, relatively a recommendation to the 2013 Spike Jonze movie Her, through which Johansson articulated a AI.
OpenAI states that it started the spreading method for its own AI representations previously in 2015, which it had actually employed a starlet (not Johansson) to voice Heavens.
The problem arrives as the problem in between generative AI and also the show business remains to churn, along with voice stars submitting legal actions, and also SAG-AFTRA expecting to push the movement of expenses binding similarity and also voice civil liberties.
