What's Trending 5/21/24: Scarlett Johansson is getting her legal team involved with Open AI

The voice "Sky" on their Chat GPT platform sounds similar to Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johannson
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o   The actress has hired legal counsel to protect her likeness.

o   She says that the company OpenAI, who is the organization behind ChatGPT, used her voice’s likeness without her consent.

o   She says she was approached by the company on two occasions to be the voice of the platform’s new ChaptGPT 4.0 system.

o   She declined the offer.

o   She said, “Nine months later, my friends, family and the general public all noted how much the newest system named ‘Sky’ sounded like me.”

o   Her lawyers reached out the asked for the exact process in which they created the “Sky” voice, noting that the company agreed to take it down reluctantly.

o   The company’s CEO maintains that the similarities between Johansson’s and OpenAI's Sky were unintentional.

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