Scarlett Johansson Slams Open AI for Illegal Use of ‘Her’ Voice on 20th Of May!

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Scarlett Johansson, a popular Hollywood Actress has accused the CEO of the Open AI Chatbot Sam Altman, of using an artificial intelligence voice, which resembles her voice very closely and the CEO has used it for the software ChatGPT as its voice software.

What’s the controversy all about?

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The controversy is all about, the Open AI recently launched voice, “Sky” which is strikingly similar to Scarlett Johnson’s voice and she has used her voice in the film “Her”.  A movie where the protagonist played by Joaquin Phoenix, an introvert author, buys an Artificial Intelligence System, so that It could assist him in writing, however when he gets to know about the AI’s capability to recognize and adapt, then he couldn’t help himself falling in love with it.

And Scarlett Johansson, has acted in role of the voice assistant of the AI, she claims that Sam Altman has asked for her voice in the film, Altman approached her last year in the month of September, and this time she was also approached by him, as he asked her for her voice in the launch of ChatGPT version 4 launch which took place on 13^th of May.

But then, due to some personal reasons, Scarlett Johansson denied the request of Sam Altman, this has been confirmed by CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel). Scarlett Johansson has hired a legal Counsel, and also she has sent two letters to Open AI, for her clearance of her voice in the case of Sky.

Why is Scarlett pissed off with the released demo?

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Scarlett Johansson was pissed off because she on the first hand refused to work with Sam Altman, and then Sam Altman himself produced a voice or one of the voice named Sky, that the users can use to interact with each other, and when it was released users were quick to recognize the voice ‘s similarity to the popular actor Scarlett Johansson’s voice in her movie ‘Her’, and comments started to flush in after such announcement by the company’s team leaders and the CEO Sam Altman.  

The Open AI has recently buzzed up the internet with its new released voice’s, Sky being one of them.  Scarlett has remarked that the voice was so similar to the voice of AI in the movie ‘Her’ that even her closest friends couldn’t find any difference!

A person who is just as normal and leading a simple life all together would be very much happier if he or she finds out any similarity of the AI’s Voice and his voice, but if you use, the voice of a celebrity, that too without her permission, then their lies an issue or its more like harming a person’s privacy. And fans find no wrong here in the case of Scarlett Johansson’s accusation.

Is this the result of Deep Fake Videos?

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Because of the rise of ‘Deep Fake’ Videos being surfed on the Internet, the rise of disbelief in AI has aroused to a certain extent! Celebrities have been targeted and videos that replicate them as a personality speaking or Interacting with the audience which is not in actual reality .

Deep Fakes are videos that are created by computer in which Images are infused to produce another footage that represent those images of certain personalities talking or interacting that actually never happened !

Bollywood Celebrities like Katrina Kaif, Alia Bhatt, Rashmika Mandanna have fallen to the prey of AI, which used their faces in someone else’s videos, and the reason why this sort of Irritation and disbelief has started and it is very right of Scarlett Johnson to accuse the AI and its users.

Not Long ago, Aamir Khan’s videos had surfaced in the Internet, where he is speaking that he refrains from joining the Lok Sabha Elections! The video was an edited one that Inserted Aamir into a scene from his own television show which is a decade long one ‘Satyamev Jayate’.

Even Ranveer Singh was seen in an AI edited video, he was speaking about his political views in it, after which the actor reacted to that, confirming he wasn’t there in that surfaced video.

However, regardless of all the accusations the people are still using the Chabot to suit their various needs.

Confirmation Provided by CEO Sam Altman

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The Open AI because of all the accusations dealing with its use of Scarlett’s voice, has removed the voice of Sky, one of its voice assistants from the software.  Even the CEO of the Open AI Chabot 4o has said in response to the accusation that it wasn’t intended to mimic the voice of Scarlett, it was the voice of some of the Professional Speakers of the company of whom they can’t use the name out of the privacy issues.

At the end, he confirmed that, because of so much of the controversy, he has deleted that voice Sky, so that It may not cause any harm to the actress Scarlett Johansson.

Scarlett Johansson on the Work Front.

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Scarlett Johansson is an American Actress; she has literally gained far recognition due to her phenomenal performance in her movies.  She has grossed her movies into approx. $15. 4 billion across the world. She has acted in the movie, North, Manny and Lo, The Horse Whisperer, Lucy, Ghost World and many movies, these movies have led her to get recognition far and wide, providing her with accolades in British Academy Film Award and also Nominations in Academy Awards. She is most popular for her role as Black Widow in the movie Iron Man 2 , a Marvel Cinematic Universe Film.