Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

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Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Scarlett Johansson is famed for many roles, among them her disquieting performance in Her, a movie about the relationship between a man and an AI chatbot.

When OpenAI boss Sam Altman contacted Johansson to ask to use her voice for his company's forthcoming real-life AI chatbot, you can well imagine why1 she said no.

Johansson, clearly livid, ultimately issued a public statement and a legal letter before the clone was removed.

"I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference," she said, … "In a time when we are all grappling with deepfakes and the protection of our own likeness, our own work, our own identities, I believe these are questions that deserve absolute clarity," Johansson said in a statement to NPR.

But Murati's audacious claim never to have heard the voice of the AI chatbot in her boss's favorite movie is key to understanding something else: they don't just think they're the smartest people in the world, they think that everyone else is stupid.

As a final fun thing today, check out how Google News's AI junk has hallucinated a factually incorrect headline that's the exact opposite of the truth here:


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As a final fun thing today, check out how Google News’s AI junk has hallucinated a factually incorrect headline that’s the exact opposite of the truth here

We literally have wars being fought over simple misunderstandings and half truths. How much worse is it going to be, when AIS take hold.

Google lost the Artificial Intelligence race.. so now they're trying to win the race to Artificial Stupidity.

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