Scarlett Johansson’s fight against OpenAI exposes the absolute arrogance of Silicon Valley

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are greedy pirates, capable of plundering intellectual property and the unique gifts of creative artists, photographers, musicians and writers.The material they use to inform AI operating systems is essentially stolen booty, scraped from anyone and everyone.Last week, OpenAI held a live demonstration to debut the new voices — Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky — of the company’s ChatGPT 4.0 system.

Actress Scarlett Johansson thought Sky sounded familiar. In fact, she said in a statement on Monday, many of her friends and family members noted the similarities to her distinctly husky voice.It would make sense.

After all, Johansson famously voiced a virtual assistant in the 2013 movie “Her.” On the same day Sky was introduced, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted, simply, “her.”There’s just one problem.

Johansson told Altman he couldn’t use her pipes for the project.“When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr.