OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation”
and she's not happy they might have anyway Liv McMahon / BBC : ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity OpenAI : How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : ChatGPT disables ‘Sky’ voice because it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian : ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson-like voice as actor speaks out against OpenAI Peter Weber / The Week : Johansson deplores ‘eerily similar’ ChatGPT voice Paul Tassi / Forbes : ChatGPT, Scarlett Johansson And Missing The Point Of ‘Her’ Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide : OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson Mark Wilson / TechRadar : Bereft ChatGPT fans start petition to bring back controversial ‘Sky’ chatbot voice Kate Irwin / PCMag : Scarlett Johansson Condemns ‘Eerily Similar’ ChatGPT Voice Scott Rosenberg / Axios : Scarlett Johansson says lawyers got OpenAI to shut down “Her” voice Rob Thubron / TechSpot : OpenAI removes Scarlett Johansson-like voice from ChatGPT after actress hires legal counsel William Gavin / Quartz : Scarlett Johansson slams OpenAI over ChatGPT's voice being ‘eerily similar’ to hers Reuters : Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI chatbot voice ‘eerily similar’ to hers Vignesh R. / Silicon Canals : Scarlett Johansson ‘shocked, angered and in disbelief’ after OpenAI allegedly recreated her voice without approval for ‘Sky’: Here's what happened Shraddha Goled / TechCircle : Amid responsible AI concerns, OpenAI now under fire for AI voice imitation accusation Martin Holland / heise online : Altman himself pointed out the similarity Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : OpenAI Faces Legal Scrutiny Over ChatGPT Voice Resemblance to Scarlett Johansson Pranav Dixit / Business Today : ‘I was shocked, angered and in disbelief’: Scarlett Johansson accuses OpenAI of using AI voice ‘eerily similar to hers’ Oliver Dale / Blockonomi : OpenAI Pauses ChatGPT Voice Amid Scarlett Johansson Controversy Sujita Sinha / Interesting Engineering : ChatGPT silences Scarlett Johansson-like sexy AI voice after actress objects Irish Independent : ChatGPT ‘pauses’ use of voice after Scarlett Johansson says it sounds ‘eerily similar to mine’ Ezza Ijaz / Wccftech : OpenAI Is Removing The ‘Sky’ Voice From ChatGPT Because It Bears An Uncanny Resemblance To Scarlett Johansson's Voice Abhijeet Kumar New Delhi / Business Standard : Why does OpenAI sound like me? Actor Scarlett Johansson wants an answer Jeffrey Gogo / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI Scraps ChatGPT Voice After Scarlett Johansson Controversy Tomás Mier / Rolling Stone : Scarlett Johansson ‘Shocked, Angered’ After ChatGPT Used Voice ‘Eerily Similar’ to Her Own Alissa Wilkinson / New York Times : What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT Paul Tassi / Forbes : OpenAI Removes AI Voice That Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson In ‘Her’ Robert Hart / Forbes : OpenAI Says Its Pulling ChatGPT Voice ‘Sky’ That Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Scarlett Johansson's voice doppelganger axed from OpenAI's ChatGPT, but it wasn't her Threads: Jason Goldman / @goldman : Paul Bettany, call your agent Tom Gara / @tomgara : The only thing worse than making an AI that's manipulatively flirty and seductive in the exact same manner as Scarlett Johansson in Her is doing that, getting dudes addicted to Her, and then cruelly taking their Her away Dave Lee / @daveleebbg : I miss her so much Mastodon: Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly@mstdn.social : Trump and Musk get all the attention for “worst legal client ever,” but may I direct your attention to Sam Altman. — https://www.npr.org/... [image] Angela Korra'ti / @annathepiper@mastodon.murkworks.net : My money's on OpenAI not revealing the name of the actor who voiced their “Sky” product because the actor _does not fucking exist_, and they just trained their damned product on a sample set of Scarlett Johansson anyway to get around the whole thorny problem of, y'know, _paying her_. … Anuj Ahooja / @quillmatiq@mastodon.social : @Techmeme — OpenAI: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky's voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson” — Also OpenAI: — [image] X: @openai : We've heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them. Read more about how we chose these voices: https://openai.com/... Bobby Allyn / @bobbyallyn : Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow: [Image text: “Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system...After much cconsideration and for personal reasons, I declined the offer. Nine months later, my friends, family, and the general public all noted how much the newest system named “Sky” sounded like me..."] @openai : We've heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them. Read more about how we chose these voices: https://openai.com/... @therealadamg : @arturot ... No. I'm sure you saw the announcements on Monday? Significant updates coming to the entire speech capabilities (as part of the move to the 4o Omni model). Those demos shown are the richness of the speech capability you will get. https://openai.com/... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : Gonna be prettttty hard to get that “never intended to resemble hers” to hold up in court now! Would love to know how many Scarlett Johansson and ‘Her’ references are getting mass deleted from the OpenAI Slack at this very moment Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : I think Sam Altman (Parody) is somehow reading Sam Altman (Real)'s draft box. Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : “Open” AI is now a company that: -keeps all of its training data and key operations secret -forced employees to sign powerful NDAs or forfeit equity -won't say whether it trained its video generator on YouTube -lies to movie stars then lies about the lies “Open.” What a farce. Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : Bizarre and suspect. Why would OpenAI pull the voice if it was confident it was not trained on Scarlett Johansson's? Unless at least *some* Johansson audio clips were in the training data? Hard to say, from the company that can't tell you if its models were trained on YouTube Emad / @emostaque : if u can't align scarjo how are u gonna align samantha/agi? Eli Dourado / @elidourado : “Sky's voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice.” Then don't pause Sky. Don't appease whoever it is that is problematizing this. Tom Gara / @tomgara : Our AI Scarlett Johansson was simply too seductive, her subtle flirtyness too flirty. Our independent panel of AI risk experts declared a horny threshold had been crossed and pulled the emergency break @luke_metro : [image] Bindu Reddy / @bindureddy : The #1 reason for open-source AGI is to prevent models from being nerfed and censored... Otherwise, even Her will get killed [image] Dennis / @dkardonsky_ : @OpenAI universal basic scarlett johannson Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : OpenAI is pulling the AI voice that was used in their announcement of GPT-4o because people said it sounds like Scarlett Johansson from Her. This is odd mostly because there's little chance it was a coincidence and did they not expect people to point it out? M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : Alright OpenAI, you made your point, but we really don't have to stick *this* close to the plot of ‘Her’... Rat King / @mikeisaac : fascinating to see this paragraph in this statement saying they're pausing the use of this particular voice actor for chat gpt [image] @autismcapital : You see that folks? We all collectively memed and mocked the ridiculous voice OpenAI used so hard that we enacted change. This is a brilliant teachable moment. Good job, everyone. Truly a victory for the people. Nick Dobos / @nickadobos : How it started How it's going [image] Forums: Hacker News : OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT r/technology : Scarlett Johansson says she is ‘shocked, angered’ over new ChatGPT voice r/neoliberal : Scarlett Johansson says she is ‘shocked, angered’ over new ChatGPT voice r/blankies : OpenAI asked ScarJo to voice ChatGPT, she turned them down, so they used a sound-a-like r/technews : Scarlett johansson suing open AI r/ArtistHate : Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she's not happy they might have anyway r/ChatGPT : Scarlett Johansson statement on the voice situation r/30ROCK : OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson r/nottheonion : OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson r/technology : OpenAI says it will remove one of the voices used by ChatGPT after it was likened to Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson. r/technews : OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson r/OpenAI : Sky has left the chat r/ChatGPT : Sky Voice Has Changed?