{"id":189885,"date":"2024-05-22T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/legal-experts-say-openai-is-in-big-trouble-if-scarlett-johansson-decides-to-sue"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T02:22:25","slug":"legal-experts-say-openai-is-in-big-trouble-if-scarlett-johansson-decides-to-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/legal-experts-say-openai-is-in-big-trouble-if-scarlett-johansson-decides-to-sue","title":{"rendered":"Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/legal-experts-say-openai-is-in-big-trouble-if-scarlett-johansson-decides-to-sue2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has landed itself in hot water for pushing out an update to ChatGPT that features a virtual assistant with an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-remove-voice-chatgpt-scarlett-johansson\" class=\"\">uncanny vocal resemblance<\/a> to Scarlett Johansson \u2014 and it could be staring down the barrel of a compelling lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Almost instantly, comparisons to the movie \u201cHer\u201d abounded, in which the actress plays a chatbot named Samantha that falls in love with a lonely man. Had OpenAI just aped her role \u2014 and her voice? Officially, it said no. Then, Johansson <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scarlett-johansson-openai-voice-consent\" class=\"\">dropped a bombshell<\/a>: leadership at the AI startup had in fact asked permission to use her voice last year. She said no, and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson\" class=\"\"><i>they did it anyway<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has landed itself in hot water for pushing out an update to ChatGPT that features a virtual assistant with an uncanny vocal resemblance to Scarlett Johansson \u2014 and it could be staring down the barrel of a compelling lawsuit. Almost instantly, comparisons to the movie \u201cHer\u201d abounded, in which the actress plays a chatbot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}