Last weekend, Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost was forced to take a public potshot at his wife during his season finale joke swap segment with co-anchor Michael Che . “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her ,” Jost said on “Weekend Update,” “which I’ve never bothered to watch, because without that body, what’s the point of listening?” The punchline, which got a huge response from the studio audence, left Jost laughing uncomfortably with his head in his hands. One person who apparently didn’t find it funny? Scarlett Johansson .

This week, the actress drew a line in the sand. She released a statement threatening legal action against OpenAI , an artificial intelligence research organization that recently came under fire for debuting a ChatGPT assistant with a voice remarkably similar to Johansson’s—specifically, to the one the actress leans on in the Spike Jonze modern classic Her (Johansson plays a disembodied, husky-voiced AI love interest ). “We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky,” OpenAI said on Monday.

“We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them.” But this was hardly enough to deter Johansson, who said that eight months ago, she declined an offer from OpenAI founder Sam Altman to lend her voice to one of his products. “He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech compa.