A different actress was hired to voice OpenAI’s “Sky” months before CEO Sam Altman contacted Johansson, according to documents and the actress’s agent.
By Nitasha Tiku, The Washington PostScarlett Johansson alleged this week that OpenAI had copied her voice after she refused a request by CEO Sam Altman to license it.
after she refused a request by CEO Sam Altman to license it. The claim by Johansson, who played a sultry virtual AI assistant in the 2013 movie “Her,” seemed to be bolstered by a cryptic tweet Altman posted to greet a demo of the product. The tweet said, simply, “her.” OpenAI paused the use of Sky in ChatGPT on Sunday, publishing a blog post detailing the lengthy process of developing five different AI voices, first released in September. In response to Johansson’s claims, Altman said in a statement OpenAI “never intended” the Sky voice to resemble Johansson and that a voice actor had been cast before he contacted her.ADVERTISEMENT
Joanne Jang, who leads AI model behavior for OpenAI, said that the company selected actors who were eager to work on an AI product. She played the actors a sample AI version of their voice to demonstrate how realistic the technology could sound. Jang said she also “gave them an out” if they were uncomfortable with the surreal job of being a voice for ChatGPT.
Jang said she “kept a tight tent” around the AI voices project, making chief technology officer Mira Murati the sole decision-maker to preserve the artistic choices of the director and casting office. Altman was on his world tour during much of the casting process and not intimately involved, she said.
But Mark Humphrey, a partner and intellectual property lawyer at Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, said any potential jury probably would have to assess whether Sky’s voice is identifiable as Johansson.
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