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On Trial: Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI

When tech company OpenAI released a voice for their AI assistant ChatGPT, people said it sounded ‘eerily similar’ to Hollywood megastar Scarlett Johansson’s. Was it hers?

Years after Scarlett Johansson starred in the film ‘Her’ about a man who falls in love with his AI assistant, tech company OpenAI released a female voice for their ChatGPT service that many people said sounded just like Scarlett. After a legal back and forth with the Hollywood star, OpenAI took it down, but how did it sound so ‘eerily similar’ to her in the first place? And what does this whole scuffle tell us about how AI will be used in the future? Stacey Dooley and Larry Dean discuss.

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