developers are cribbing from the movies, crafting voices for real machines based on dated cinematic fantasies of how machines should talk.
She was agreeable and self-effacing; she sounded like she was game for anything.
After Sky’s debut, Johansson expressed displeasure at the “eerily similar” sound, and said that she had previously declined OpenAI’s request that she voice the bot.
The company protested that Sky was voiced by a “different professional actress,” but agreed to pause her voice in deference to Johansson.
Bereft OpenAI users have started a petition to bring her back.
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OpenAI, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Jonze, ”, Johansson, Sky