What you need to know
- Recently, Microsoft partner OpenAI demonstrated new AI tools that come with natural language conversational dialogue.
- The "voice" chosen sounded eerily similar to Samantha in the AI Netflix movie "Her," voiced by Scarlett Johansson of Marvel Avengers fame.
- OpenAI mysteriously pulled the voice yesterday, likely ahead of planned legal action by Johansson.
- Today, Johansson issued a statement confirming that OpenAI had essentially begged her for the rights to her voice, despite claiming it had used other voice actors in a large and defensive article.
- Microsoft is partnered with OpenAI for language models, following a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment.
- UPDATE: Sam Altman has responded with statement denying the allegation "Sky is not Scarlett Johansson's, and it was never intended to resemble hers."
