Information -21 Might 2024 – 12:56
Scarlett Johansson threatens authorized motion towards OpenAI. The corporate approached the American actress to voice GPT-4o, however went reside earlier than she gave permission.
In response to the menace, OpenAI eliminated the voice, which was renamed Sky, from the audio interface. CEO Sam Altman’s firm doesn’t admit guilt, as a result of the voice states that from one other actress is. They don’t wish to reveal her title.
OpenAI says in its protection that Sky isn’t an imitation. That does not rule out the likelihood that the LLM was instructed to sound just like the Scarlett Johansson. A semantic dialogue {that a} decide will undoubtedly must sink his enamel into in some unspecified time in the future.
Johansson himself provides one very completely different clarification. Consistent with OpenAI’s outlined timeline, she was additionally approached by Sam Altman final fall and requested in the event that they wished to make use of her voice for the creation of Sky. She declined the supply, however fourteen different voice actors didn’t. But the ultimate product sounds unmistakably like her personal voice.
The American hopes to discover a answer through the authorized route ‘within the type of transparency and the introduction of relevant laws’.
Photograph: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees (cc)
