The Daily Money: Scarlett Johansson says AI took her voice
Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.
The nerve of some AIs.
Actress Scarlett Johansson is threatening Sam Altman and his company OpenAI with legal action, Bailey Schulz and Jessica Guynn report, alleging they copied her voice for ChatGPT without her permission.
Johansson, who provided the voice of the artificial intelligence assistant in the 2013 science fiction movie “Her,” said ChatGPT’s “Sky” voice is so eerily similar to hers that her closest friends could not tell the difference.
Johansson said Altman asked her to be the voice of his AI system and, when she turned him down, he copied her voice anyway.
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That’s the question at the heart of a racial discrimination lawsuit filed in federal court against the megabank by Florida customers who say they were charged out-of-network fees for transactions at Citi ATMs while customers of minority-owned banks were not. The plaintiffs are seeking class-action status, Jessica Guynn reports.
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