The Scarlett Johansson deception is part of a pattern for OpenAI and Sam Altman

Maybe we should be worried that the company that’s ushering in AI’s next wave doesn’t seem entirely honest.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked the actress Scarlett Johansson—who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film Her—to do the voice for ChatGPT. She said no. So OpenAI concocted a voice that sounds a lot like that of the actress, and used it without telling her. Now the actress has lawyered up and OpenAI has egg on its face. (It’s since removed the Her voice from its chatbot.)