Scarlett Johansson Threatens to Sue OpenAI Over Chatbot Voice That Sounds ‘Eerily Similar’ to Hers

Published on May 22, 2024

OpenAI said it plans to discontinue using one of its ChatGPT voices after Scarlett Johansson alleged it sounded “eerily similar” to her own. On Monday, the company said it is “working to pause” the voice known as Sky, one of five voice users can speak with when using ChapGPT. “We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky,” OpenAI wrote on X. “We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them.” Ms. Johansson, who voiced a fictional AI assistant in the 2013 film “Her,” was among those raising questions about how it selects its lifelike audio options on its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot....

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