Scarlett Johansson appears ready to go to legal war (again) -- only now, it's all about ChatGPT's newest voice sounding eerily similar to her ...
and she says that's no coincidence. The actress came out swinging Monday on the heels of OpenAI -- the creator of ChatGPT -- yanking their newest feature of their hottest commodity ..
. namely, suspending AI voices they recently trotted out, including one that many said sounded just like ScarJo. They dubbed the new voice Sky .
.. and many felt it eerily mirrored Scarlett's AI character in 2013's "Her" -- where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a computer that sounds human.
As it turns out ...
Scarlett claims that she was actually approached by OpenAI's head honchos in September -- including CEO Sam Altman -- who she says wanted to hire her to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 model. SJ says she considered it .
.. but ultimately declined.
Fast-forward to December, and OpenAI's "Sky" was rolled out ...
with just about everyone saying it reminded them of ScarJo -- and she thought so too, which is why she lawyered up. Scarlett even says Sam leaned into the whole "Her" connection by tweeting "her" when the Sky voice was debuted a couple weeks ago ..
. which, to her, suggests they found a loophole in getting their own ScarJo -- namely, generating a voice or hiring someone else to come across just like her. She released a statement saying .
.. "As a result of their actions, I was forced to hire legal counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr.
Altman an.
