OpenAI apologizes to Johansson, denies voice based on her

San Francisco (AFP) May 21, 2024

OpenAI chief Sam Altman apologized Tuesday to Scarlett Johansson after the movie star said she was "shocked" by a new synthetic voice released by the ChatGPT-maker, but he insisted the voice was not based on hers. At issue is "Sky," a voice OpenAI featured last week in the release of its more humanlike GPT-4o artificial intelligence technology. In a demo, Sky was at times flirtatious and