Colin Jost has never been afraid to crack jokes about his wife Scarlett Johansson – but his most recent one has raised some eyebrows. During his appearance on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment on May 18 – the season finale – he joked: “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her . Which I’ve never bothered to watch, because without that body, what’s the point of listening.
” The twist of course was that the lines were fed to him by his mischievous co-host Michael Che as part of an SNL tradition on the last show of the season. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost at the world premiere of Avengers: Infinity War together in 2018.
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jpg"} Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost at the world premiere of Avengers: Infinity War together in 2018. Photo: Invision/AP But the incident he was referencing – a likeness of Johansson’s voice being used in the latest ChatGPT update – was not a joke. The actress recently released a statement in relation to the voice robot, saying she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief that [ChatGPT founder Sam] Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference,” per CBS News.
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