May 21. (Portaltic/EP) –
The actress Scarlett Johansson rejected an offer that he received from OpenAI for put voice to ‘chatbot’ ChatGPT, However, he has accused the company led by Sam Altman of ignore your response and also use a voice practically identical to yours.
With the support for voice chat that the technology company implemented in ChatGPT in September 2023, users can choose between five voices for your interactions with this ‘chatbot’. These are Breeze, Cove, Juniper, Sky and Ember, each with “its own distinctive tone and character.”
Before launching this support, OpenAI worked for five months with “professional voice actors, talent agencies, casting directors and industry advisors”, and also offered actress Scarlett Johansson to be the voice of ChatGPT, as she already did in the movie Her, where he plays an AI.
In its proposal, OpenAI claimed that by using its voice, it could help “close the gap between technology companies and creatives”, as well as help users “to feel comfortable” in relation to the use of AI, as the interpreter explained in a statement shared with media such as Engadget and NPR.
Johansson ended up rejecting the offer “after much consideration” for personal reasons. But, nine months later, after the presentation of the new GPT-4o model, which OpenAI recently showed, the actress has denounced how similar the ‘Sky’ voice sounds to your own in the updated ‘chatbot’.
“When I heard the demo released I was shocked, furious and incredulous. seeing that he Mr. Altman was using a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and the media couldn’t tell the difference,” said the actress.
Likewise, she noted that, two days before the launch of the ChatGPT demo, the leader of OpenAI contacted her again to reconsider the offer to use her voice. However, the actress has detailed that Before his agent could respond to the offer, the new chatbot had already been introduced.
In this frame, Johansson has pointed out that OpenAI imitated her voice regardless of whether she rejected the offer and, therefore, has hired a legal advisor to resolve the facts and ask the company to detail “the exact process by which they created the voice of ‘Sky’.”
As a result, the technology company stopped the use of the ‘Sky’ voice on ChatGPT this Monday and has denied that I try to imitate her, claiming that HE is about a voice that belongs to “a different professional actress who uses her own natural voice“.
With all this, Johansson has recalled that society is in a moment in which people are continually dealing with ‘deepfakes’ and working to promote the protection of users’ work and their identities.
Therefore, he has indicated that he hopes “for the resolution in the form of transparency and approval of appropriate legislation” to help ensure the protection of individual rights.
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