Scarlett Johansson refused to take a major job for the sake of her two children.
Actress Vicky Cristina Barcelona He thought the movement would make his children uncomfortable and being ‘strange’ to them.
The husky-voiced star, who turns 40 this year, has a daughter, Rose Dorothy, nine, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and a son, Cosmo, two, with husband Colin Jost.
But even after saying no, the pin-up found herself dragged into a drama with the company that she found “disturbing.”
The job? Giving voice to OpenAI’s chatbot.
The Lost In Translation star made headlines earlier this year when she criticised the company behind ChatGPT for releasing a new chatbot called Sky with a voice “eerily similar” to her own after she previously turned down an offer to provide the voice herself.
Scarlett Johansson refused to take a major job for the sake of her two children, Rose and Cosmo. But even after saying no, the pin-up girl found herself embroiled in drama with the company that she found “disturbing.” Seen in April
The job? Voicing OpenAI’s chatbot. The Lost In Translation star made headlines earlier this year when she criticised the company behind ChatGPT for releasing a new chatbot called Sky with a voice “eerily similar” to her own, after she previously turned down an offer to provide the voice.
And now he insisted that he simply did not want to be involved in the project.
Scarlett told the New York Times: ‘I actively avoided being part of the conversation (about AI), which made it so disturbing.
“I was like, ‘How did I get myself into this? ‘ It was crazy. I was so angry,” said the star who lent her charming voice to Samantha in the 2013 film Her, with Joaquin Phoenix.
‘I felt like I didn’t want to be at the center of it all. I felt like it went against my core values. I don’t like kissing and telling.
‘He (Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI) came to me with this and I didn’t tell anyone except my husband… I also thought it would be weird for my kids.’
He then added: “I try to be aware of them.”
The 39-year-old actress went on to warn of the dangers of deepfake technology, describing it as a “dark wormhole that you can never get out of.”
He added: “When you try to remove something in one area, it appears in another. There are other countries that have different laws and rules.”
With husband Colin Jost at the New York premiere of Fly Me To The Moon on July 8
“If your ex-partner posts deepfake and revenge porn, your entire life can be completely ruined,” she added.
“I think technologies are advancing faster than our fragile human egos can process them, and the effects are seen everywhere, especially among young people,” Scarlett explained.
“This technology is coming like a thousand-foot wave.”
Scarlett previously stated that she was “shocked” and “angry” by the choice of voice for the chatbot.
The beauty’s new film is titled Fly Me To The Moon with Channing Tatum
Here the actors are seen arm in arm at the premiere in Madrid on July 11.
The synopsis: Sparks fly between a marketing executive and a NASA official as he makes preparations for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
But OpenAI boss Sam Altman clarified that Sky was created by an actor and was not a deliberate attempt to imitate the movie star.
In a statement to The Verge, Altman said: ‘Sky’s voice is not Scarlett Johansson’s, and was never intended to sound like her.
‘We chose the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before contacting Ms. Johansson.
‘Out of respect for Ms Johansson, we have stopped using Sky’s voice in our products.
“We regret not having communicated better with Ms. Johansson.”
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