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Scarlett Johansson Alleges OpenAI's Sky Imitates Her Voice Without Licensing
- Occurred
- May 20, 2024
- Published
- May 23, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
OpenAI unveiled a voice assistant with a voice resembling Scarlett Johansson's, despite her refusal to license her voice. Johansson claimed the assistant, "Sky," sounded "eerily similar" to her voice, leading her to seek legal action. OpenAI suspended Sky, asserting the voice was from a different actress.
Developers
- Sam Altman
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Sky voice assistant
- Sam Altman
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Scarlett Johansson
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized voice cloning and legal action over consent violations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8