Below is Scarlett Johansson's statement on Monday.
“Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman to hire me to be the voice of the current ChatGPT 4.0 system. He said he felt he could bridge the gap and make consumers feel at ease about the seismic shifts around humans and AI. He said he thought his voice would comfort people. As a result, for personal reasons, I declined the offer, and after 9 months, my friends, family, and the public all realized how similar the modern system, named “Sky”, was to me. I paid attention to the dolphins.
“When I heard the public demo, I was shocked and angry, and I couldn't believe that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice so eerily similar to mine that close friends and the press couldn't tell it apart.” Altman hinted that the resemblance was intentional, tweeting the word “she” in the film where she played the voice of Samantha, a chat system that builds rapport with humans. It was something like that.
“Two days before the ChatGPT 4.0 demo was released, Mr. Altman contacted my agent and asked us to reconsider. The system existed before we could connect. As a result of their actions, I was forced to hire a lawyer, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAI explaining their actions and asking for details of the exact process by which they created the “Sky” voice. . As a result, OpenAI reluctantly agreed to remove the “Sky” audio.
“I believe these are issues that need to be made absolutely clear at a time when we are all grappling with deepfakes and protecting our own likenesses, our own work, our own identities. We look forward to a solution in the form of transparency and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected.”
