Scarlett Johansson is demanding answers from OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, after it released a ChatGPT voice that she says sounds "eerily similar" to her own. Johansson claims she declined Altman's offer for her to voice the product. Jo Ling Kent has the detials.
This week in AI, OpenAI launched discounted plans for nonprofits and education customers and drew back the curtains on its most recent efforts to stop bad actors from abusing its AI tools. OpenAI removed one of the voices used by its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT after users pointed out that it sounded eerily similar to Johansson's. Johansson later released a statement saying that she hired legal counsel to inquire about the voice and get exact details about how it was developed -- and that she'd refused repeated entreaties from OpenAI to license her voice for ChatGPT. Now, a piece in The Washington Post implies that OpenAI didn't in fact seek to clone Johansson's voice and that any similarities were accidental.
In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was pressured to resign as president of Y Combinator in 2019 due to potential conflicts of interest. "People have been claiming [Y Combinator] fired Sam Altman," Graham writes. Altman became a partner at Y Combinator in 2011, initially working there on a part-time basis.
OpenAI announced this week that it’s removing Sky, one of the voices used by its new GPT-4o model, after users found it sounded eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in “Her.” While the company claims the voice was not based on Johansson’s, the actress said OpenAI had previously approached her about using her voice for the model. The U.S. Department of Justice and 30 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster’s parent company, for alleged monopolistic practices.
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