The seeds of the latest Scarlett Johansson contention, including OpenAI, were planted last September when ChatGPT got its voice capabilities. Over the following months, OpenAI worked on giving multimodal capabilities and released it to the public as GPT-4o.

This modern model permits the updated form of ChatGPT to react normally and incorporate different discourse nuances to make the discussion appear more human. Ever since the viral demo was released to the public, the media and fans drew a mysterious resemblance between ChatGPT’s new voice model, Sky, and Scarlett Johansson. Soon after, Johansson’s legal group got suspicious and reached out to OpenAI for clarifications.

Simultaneously, the actress’ group moreover discharged a statement that uncovered their concerns.

In the explanation, Johansson’s group says that Sam Altman reached out to the actress in September to expand a part to voice the 40 chatbot. Although Altman was persuaded that her voice might “bridge the hole between tech companies and creatives,” Johansson declined the offer, citing personal reasons.

Nine months have passed since the offer, and the actress presently finds a tremendous resemblance between the chatbot’s Sky voice framework and hers.