Scarlett Johansson takes aim at companies using her likeness, voice in AI
Scarlett Johansson has continued to share her opinion on artificial intelligence and she has several suggestions on how the tool should be regulated in the future During an interview with Vanity Fair the actress spoke out about AI companies that have used her likeness and allegedly her voice in the past She explained the outlet that she is advocating for rule to be made around evolving equipment There has to be specific agreed-upon set of boundaries in order for AI to not be detrimental I wish more people in the citizens eye would advocacy and speak out about that I don t know why that s not the occurrence Johansson commented WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI This is not the first time Johansson has warned about the dangers of AI In Johansson claimed she had been solicited to voice OpenAI s Chatbot by CEO Sam Altman but turned down the job only for people to notice that the feature named Sky sounded almost exactly like the actress Particularly with the A I piece It was like If that can happen to me how are we going to protect ourselves from this There s no boundary here we're setting ourselves up to be taken advantage of the -year-old recounted InStyle Magazine in March In a report to NPR following the release of Sky Johansson explained When I heard the distributed demo 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 Mr Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional tweeting a single word her a reference to the film in which I voiced a chat system Samantha who forms an intimate relationship with a human The Black Widow star s legal association sent OpenAI letters asking for an explanation about how the AI assistant s voice came to be and the company later agreed to take down Sky LIKE WHAT YOU RE READING CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSAltman later issued a declaration to Fox News Digital regarding Sky's voice The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson's and it was never intended to resemble hers We cast the voice actor behind Sky s voice before any outreach to Ms Johansson Out of respect for Ms Johansson we have paused using Sky s voice in our products We are sorry to Ms Johansson that we didn t communicate better the declaration read Speaking with InStyle Johansson mentioned she s become a reluctant voice in the AI conversation but won t back down either CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER I don't need to be beating the drum the whole time That s not my place But also I'm not afraid of being invalidated she noted Johansson added that after a Hollywood career that began as a child she s not shy about speaking up for herself But now I see that I literally built something that that I have a place here And because of that I've been able to stand up for myself and not feel like I would disappear I can shoulder it she revealed The Avengers star also took legal action in against an AI image-generating app called Lisa AI s Yearbook Avatar for using her voice and likeness in an ad posted on X Johansson s attorney stated Variety We do not take these things lightly Per our usual program of action in these circumstances we will deal with it with all legal remedies that we will have
