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Exactly how stupid was what OpenAI did to Scarlett Johansson?


We ranked it in our list of the seven most boneheaded self-owns by technology companies.

Scarlett Johansson said that after she declined to let OpenAI use her voice for ChatGPT, the company found a sound-alike. SaveThe company said so again last week when it unveiled a chattier ChatGPT that featured the Johansson sound-alike. The same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X a one-word reference to the 2013 movie “Her,” in which Johansson was the voice of an emotional companion AI.

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