Lawyers for Scarlett Johansson are demanding that OpenAI disclose how it developed an AI personal assistant voice that the actress says sounds uncannily similar to her own. Johansson's legal team has sent OpenAI two letters asking the company to detail the process by which it developed a voice the tech company dubbed "Sky," Johansson's publicist told NPR in a revelation that has not been previously reported. After OpenAI held a live demonstration of the voice last week, many observers compared it to Johansson's voice in the the 2013 Spike Jonze romantic sci-fi film "Her," which centers on a man who falls in love with the female voice of his computer's operating system. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has said <https://www.google.com/search?q=sam+altman+her+and+salesforce&rlz=1C1GCEJ_en...> the 2013 Spike Jonze film is his favorite movie, invited comparisons by posting the word "Her" <https://x.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666> on X after the company announced the new ChatGPT version. But later, OpenAI executives denied any connection between Johansson and the new voice assistant. Then the company suddenly dropped the voice. .... [Continua qui:] https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-com... -- _______________ *Maurizio Borghi* Università di Torino https://www.dg.unito.it/persone/maurizio.borghi Co-Director Nexa Center for Internet & Society <https://nexa.polito.it/>