The Case of Scarlett Johansson’s Voice Certainly Resonates at AI Global Forum at Seoul

Parley participants seem to agree on the need for curbs to protect property like the actress’s astonishing voice.

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Scarlett Johansson at Cannes, May 24, 2023. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, file

The South Korean and British organizers of the second AI Global Forum agree. The actress Scarlett Johansson’s claim to have recognized an imitation of her voice on ChatGPT was not only valid but an example of the safety issues besetting the wild, untamed world of artificial intelligence.

“That was misuse of AI,” the South Korean minister of science, Lee Jong-ho, responded without hesitation when asked by the Sun what he thought of Ms. Johansson’s charge that her voice was imitated by Open AI without her knowledge or approval for ChatGPT’s Sky. It exemplified, he said,  the need for curbs on how AI “could be handled for our society”

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