Actress Johansson Hired Lawyers to Push Back on OpenAI Voice (2)

Actress Scarlett Johansson said that she was “forced to hire legal counsel” to demand the removal of an artificial intelligence voice for OpenAI’s chatbot that sounded too much like her.

In a statement on Monday, the actress said she received an offer from OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman in September about voicing an audio feature for the company’s popular ChatGPT chatbot. She said she decided not to participate in the project “after much consideration and for personal reasons.”

In Altman’s offer, “He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap ...