Scarlett Johansson names the job she refused to take for the sake of her kids… and the ‘disturbing’ twist after she said no
Scarlett Johansson refused to take a big job because of her two children.
The actress of Vicky Cristina Barcelona thought the move would make her children uncomfortable and ‘strange’ to them.
The gravelly-voiced star, who turns 40 this year, has a nine-year-old daughter Rose Dorothy with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac and a two-year-old son Cosmo with her husband Colin Jost.
But even after she said no, the pin-up girl found herself embroiled in drama with the company, which she found “disturbing.”
The job? Giving OpenAI’s chatbot a voice.
The Lost In Translation star made headlines earlier this year when she criticised the company behind ChatGPT for launching a new chatbot called Sky with a voice that “sounds eerily similar” to her own, after previously turning down an offer to provide the voice herself.
Scarlett Johansson refused to take a big job for her two children. She has children Rose and Cosmo. But even after she said no, the pinup was dragged into a drama with the company that she found ‘troubling’. Seen in April
The job? Voice OpenAI’s chatbot. The Lost In Translation star made headlines earlier this year when she criticized the company behind ChatGPT for launching a new chatbot called Sky with a voice that “sounds eerily similar” to her own, after previously turning down an offer to provide the voice
And now she says she doesn’t want to get involved in the project at all.
Scarlett told the New York Times: ‘[I] actively avoided being part of the [AI] conversation, which made it so disturbing.
“I was like, ‘How did I get into this?’ It was crazy. I was so angry,” said the star, who provided the inviting voice of Samantha in the 2013 film Her with Joaquin Phoenix.
“I felt like I didn’t want to be ahead of the curve. I felt like it went against my core values. I don’t like to kiss and tell.
‘He [OpenAI CEO Sam Altman] came to me with this and I didn’t tell anyone except my husband… I felt strange for my children too.’
She added: “I try to be mindful of it.”
The 39-year-old actress also warned of the dangers of deepfake technology, describing it as a “dark wormhole that you can never climb out of.”
She added: ‘If you try to take something down in one place, it will pop up somewhere else. There are other countries with different laws and regulations.
With her husband Colin Jost at the Fly Me To The Moon premiere in New York on July 8
“If your ex-partner takes revenge and broadcasts deepfake porn, your whole life can be completely destroyed,” she added.
“I think that the pace of technological development is accelerating beyond our fragile human egos. You see the effects everywhere, especially in young people,” Scarlett explains.
“This technology is coming like a thousand-foot wave.”
Scarlett previously said she was ‘shocked’ and ‘angry’ at the choice of voice for the chatbot.
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Here the actors are seen arm in arm at the premiere in Madrid on July 11
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But OpenAI boss Sam Altman clarified that Sky was an actor used to create Sky and that it 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 resemble hers.
‘We cast the voice actor for Sky’s voice before we contacted Ms Johansson.
‘Out of respect for Ms Johansson, we no longer use Sky’s voice in our products.
“We regret to Ms Johansson that we did not communicate better.”