a battle with hollywood star scarlett johansson. it's all about her voice. voice mode in chatgpt allows you to talk to the ai using spoken language. openai says it's only a coincidence, but johansson isn't buying it. the feud that's developing tonight, also east bay leaders are sounding the alarm on an ambulance shortage. why buying more vehicles and hiring more emts might not solve the problem. plus, the man convicted of attacking the husband of congresswoman nancy pelosi will be sentenced again. the error the judge made prompting this move. does it mean a different prison sentence ? there we go. and ever wonder what it's like to run the bay to breakers? we've got a unique perspective of san francisco's zany annual event. good evening, i'm raj mathai. happy monday to you. we're going to start off with some of the headlines that we are watching at this hour. hundreds of university workers are now on strike. this is all about the israel-hamas war and the uc system's response to all of those campus protests. the first group to walk off the job, academic employ

so as explained, joining us now is scarlett mccgwire one director at jl partners, scarlett lovely.you you know the other scarlett. >> yeah we were just at dinner. >> yeah we were just at dinner. >> that's very cosy, wonderful. so look, how did you come up with that jl partners poll which suggested that labour were just 12 points ahead? i mean, that's staggering because some of the other polling, this is why polling confuses me. some of the other polling has put labour at 27 points ahead. that's a massive gulf and gap. yes, absolutely. >> so we're at the opposite end of that. you're quite rightly said we're at 12 points. it's important to say we've been using the same methods as we've consistently used over the last three months. we're now going to be updating that weekly. now that the campaign has started, we do something quite different to yougov, and that's part of the reason why we get quite a different answer. so whereas yougov leave don't know. so people who tell pollsters at the moment they don't currently know how they vote. yougov leaves them be at the moment and says that'

openai should be punished for attempting to steal scarlett johansson's voice.ow on they should have to use an off-putting voice. like my uncle dan who's been smoking his whole life. "you don't want to go to that restaurant. that neighborhood's gotten real diverse, if you know what i mean. i miss vietnam." for more on the scarlett johannson controversy, we go live to san francisco, home of openai headquarters, with ronny chieng. [cheers and applause] ronny! ronny, how did sam altman think he could get away with this? >> because he's a nerd. and nerds have too much power now. look at mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos, elon musk. you can't trust these [bleep] nerds! >> michael: i don't think that's an appropriate term. >> what, [bleep] or nerds? because what else do you call a bunch of weirdos who spend all day on computers and don't know how to act around women? >> michael: i mean, i call them socially awkward... shy... introverted... >> nerds! nerds! [bleep] nerds! and nerds used to know their place. they knew the rules. don't act weird, don't make eye contact, don't

>> i think it will benefit scarlett johansson. interm right now she has the leverage. yes >> do you think so? how much do you feel like the circumstantial evidence we were talking about, the circumstantial evidence here in this case seems pretty strong in scarlett johansson's favor. i mean, sam altman, a huge fan of her movie, a her movie her, in which she was played the voice assistant, they asked her to use her voice. she declined several times. and all of a sudden you have a voice assistant that sounds like scarlett johansson, right? >> i think it's very interesting. the same as we use handwriting experts in court. there have also been celebrity soundalike cases, so the courts are prepared to deal with this sort of issue. they will have procedures in place to determine how close the voice sounds to scarlett johansson, and so she has a chance to succeed. at this point. yeah. >> fascinating. >> yes. just one of the newer concerns that artificial intelligence brings to the forefront. all right. really appreciate your expertise. and thanks again for taking the time to t

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scarlett johansson, we have paused our products.riticism for the use of deep fakes. >> lawmakers have been extremely concerned about deep fakes, audio and video, where you are able to take somebody's voice and make it say whatever you want. >> reporter: it bears repeating that is just the latest controversy at openai. a number of em blow iis have left the company over conflicting priorities and many have accused open ai of not being transparent. johansson's legal team wants details on how they created that sky voice. >>> coming up, a legal fight erupts over elvis presley's iconic graceland estate. how his granddaughter is now trying to stop the sale. trying to stop the sale. you're wching "nbc news at ♪ limu emu... ♪ and doug. (bell ringing) limu, someone needs to customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. let's fly! (inaudible sounds) chief! doug. (inaudible sounds) ooooo ah. (elevator doors opening) (inaudible sounds) i thought you were right behind me. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty

. >> actress scarlett johansson threatening legal action claiming chatgpt copied her voice and the legal battle involving graceland. >> you ain't nothin goin on. >> how elvis's granddaughter is hoping to block the sale of the historic landmark. >> from abc news. this is america this morning. >> good morning everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning to you. i'm rhiannon ally. we begin with an explosive day in donald trump's hush money trial. a defense witness is returning to the stand today after the judge threatened to strike his testimony. >> the chaos unfolded once michael cohen left the stand, following an admission that he stole money from trump's company. here's abc's lionel moise. >> after prosecutors rested their case in donald trump's hush money trial, some tense moments in the courtroom between the judge and a surprise witness called to the stand by trump's legal team. robert costello is a lawyer who advised trump fixer michael cohen after his hotel room and office were raided by the fbi in 2018. in court, trump's legal team got cohen to admit under oath that he stole $30,00

who owns and owes what and this time it's megawatt actress scarlett johansson who is now lawyered upvoice of the chatgpt four oh who said she says sounds a lot like her and she did star in the film where there is a chat that they fall in love with, she said that she got a offer to voice the system after much consideration and for personal reasons she declined the offer. "when i heard the release demo i was shocked, angered, and in disbelief that mr. altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine. i got stomach," i got in touch with sam saying the voice was not scarlett johansson's and it was never supposed to resemble hers. week casted before any outreach to miss johansson but i will let you decide for yourself. first left listen to scarlett johansson in the movie "her" >> theodora shiner emails you would gone to embrace breakup recently. >> you're kind of nosy. >> and my? you'll get used to it. >> let's listen to openai's guy's voice. >> i want you to tell a bedtime story about robots and low. >> oh, a bedtime story about robots in love? i've got you covered. gat

. >>> scarlett johansson taking on openai. what she is accusing the tech giant of doing after she turned them down. >>> and the portal connecting two cities across the world reopening as long as everyone behaves. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening and welcome. breaking as we come on the air tonight, the radar maps lighting up with tornado warnings from yet another severe weather outbreak. a line of storms making their way across iowa this afternoon, where at least 12 tornadoes have been reported today and already one death. early major damage reports coming in from greenfield, iowa, where as you can see homes have been demolished. iowa, along with parts of minnesota and western illinois facing what the weather service is calling a particularly dangerous situation. flood watches in effect for some of those same areas tonight. maggie vespa and her team are in the storm zone. maggie, there is destruction across iowa tonight? >> yeah, lester, the strength of these storms was once again strik

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scarlett johansson said, no, they got somebody who sounds like scarlett johansson. same as copying scarlett johansson? >> no, i think she just needs to get over this. as much as it might sound like, oh, that's not fair. this is the way it's going to be, i people will be able to find who sounds exactly like you, if not, just create that voice, sample it, and make it a bit more like you. it's just the way it's going to be. >> it isn't the way. now, can i, can i now, just for context, say, remember the adverts with, the guy who sounded like morgan freeman? >> the more than insurance. it wasn't morgan freeman. he sounded. he was doing an impression that's happened in adverts for forever. >> it has happened. but there's been lawsuits, including the bette midler thing, which he sued sony films because they they actually went to her and asked her to sing the theme song, and she wouldn't sing it. so they got someone to imitate her and that she won like nine, or she won like tons of money, like £1 million. and so she successfully and she won. and that's what's going to happe

and maintain the sky's voice is not an imitation of scarlett johansson. according to a statement from johansson obtained by cbs news bay area, she did participate to narrate the voice, but ultimately declined. she said she was shocked, angered, in disbelief the company would pursue a voice so similar to hers that her closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference. >> it's like the list that we're trying to find our limits. to find those limits, we have to hit some kind of case like this and say okay, we're not going to do that. >> reporter: lawmakers are rushing to pass laws to protect actors from growing ai industry. bay area assembly member is working on laws to ban the use of a deceased actor's image or voice for decades after they pass. >> we want to make sure every artist, their artistic expression is protected, so things like this don't happen. so you get to consent to whether your voice is used or not. >> reporter: that consent according to johansson was not given. but the interest from open ai to replicate her role in the 2013 movi

actress scarlett johansson saying this voice used by sky -- >> hello.e you doing? >> reporter: the actress famously played an artificial intelligence system in the movie "her" in 2013. >> do you have the name? >> yes. samantha. >> reporter: now warning tech is imitating art too closely. >> a virtual assistance that can help answer questions. >> reporter: johansson says sam altman, open ai, wanted to hire her to voice sky but that she declined the offer due to personal reasons. the voice, she was shocked, angered and in disbelief. she points out altman tweeted a single word "her," the day the product was announced. the actress telling nbc news when she later heard the ai voice, she was shocked, angered and in disbelief. she points out ultman insinuated the intentional similarity when he tweeted a single word, her. the data chatgpt product was announced. altman said "her" is his favorite movie about ai. >> i think "her" got something deeply right on the interface and that's no small feat. >> reporter: once the voice was released m on social media immediat

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a fred pleitgen and also tonight, she said she said actress scarlett johansson, lawyering up againsttgpt and ceo sam altman, accusing him of copying her voice without her permission. jason carroll is out front good morning. theodore. >> morning. >> you never saw her face in the sci-fi romance titled her, but audiences knew it was scarlett johansson, distinctive voice for trained samantha the synthetic siri like character in the 2013 film, you have a meeting in five minutes try i'm getting at to funny. the actor is now speaking out against open ai and its ceo sam altman, saying her real voice sounds too close to the one openai created for chatgpt is updated model, the artificial voice goes by the name sky. here's a sample but what sky sounds like, hey, there, it's going great how about you too similar for johansson, she released a statement saying, my friends, family, and the general public, all noted how much the newest system named sky sounded like me. >> i was shocked, angered, and in disbelief altman fired back saying the voice of sky is not scarlett johansson, and it was never in

sta actress scarlett johansson. the company has paused one of its chatgpt voices after johansson said the voice sounded a lot like hers. there's another layer to this story, she says. ceo sam altman approached her about doing voice work for the chatbot, but she declined. openai i put out a statement saying the person who did the voice was actually cast before they reached out to johansson, the actress has hired lawyers to look into what happened. the dispute between johansson and openai has once again brought up a larger topic a.i, impersonating the likeness of real people. >> it's a topic legal experts, and certainly those who make living their living on their voice and their likeness are following very closely. >> abc7 news reporter zach fuentes tells us what's at stake . >> want to send someone a message from oprah winfrey? it could be as easy as clicking a link. websites like this have countless celebrity voices to choose from. you select a voice like oprah's. you type whatever you want. her to say and type what

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david: a-list celebrity scarlett johansson claims what open a.i.wers. saying that chat gpt maker copied it for sky. after she refused a licensing offer from the ceo, susan lee is in new york with the latest. reporter: we live in a new era of a.i., that means we'll get more of these type of battles over likeness and intellectual property. who owns and owes what, this time it is scarlett johansson now lawyered up and said she is reviewing her options over chat gpt that she said sounds a lot like her, she started in the film of voice in the a.i. scscarlett johansson said in september he received an offer from sam altman who wanted to hire me for the chat gpt system. i declined that offer when i heard release demo, i was shocked, angered and disbelief that mr. s altman would pursue a voice that sounded so similar to mine, i got in touch with sam altman and said that the voice of sky is not scarlett johansson's and never intended to sound like hers, i will let you disietd. decide. >> i saw in your e-mails you had gone through a break up. >> you are nose

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the brand i trust. >>> open ai and ceo sam altman are under fire from scarlett johansson.is a voice that sounds like hers. julia boorstin joins us now to explain this conflict and its significance, julia. >> so, kelly, scarlett johansson says that open ai's voice assistant, which launched last week, called sky, sounded just like her. joe hanson issuing a statement saying that sam altman approached her last september asking to use her voice, which was fay mously featured in the virtual assistant in a film called "her." she declined. then two days, altman approached her again, but they didn't connect before the launch day on which altman tweeted the word, her, on x. saying altman now saying that they have paused using sky's voice in open ai's products but that, quote, the voice of sky is not scarlett johansson's. it was never intended to resemble her's. johansson saying, quote n a time we are all grappling with deep fakes and the protection of our own likeness, our own work, our own identities, she says i look forward to resolution in the form of transparency and the passage

why scarlett johansson is calling out open a.i. over its new chat gpt virtual assistant. >>> and target takes aim at inflation. the retail giant's big plan to cut prices on thousands of items, including household staples like food and detergent. it's monday, may 21st, "early today" starts right now. good morning, thanks for being with me. i'm frances rivera. the criminal hush money trial of donald trump is nearing its end. the prosecution has rested its case, but there is no shortage of drama as the cross examination of michael cohen wrapped up, the judge started to clash with one of the witnesses for the defense. brie jackson joins us now. and catch us up on what happened in the courtroom. >> reporter: it was another dramatic day of testimony. the defense got one more chance to grill michael cohen. during cross examination, cohen admitted to stealing from the trump organization, saying that he duped his former boss into reimbursing him more money than was owed to a tech firm. cohen said that he did this because he had not received

so as explained, joining us now is scarlett mccgwire one director at jl partners, scarlett lovely.you you know the other scarlett. >> yeah we were just at dinner. >> yeah we were just at dinner. >> that's very cosy, wonderful. so look, how did you come up with that jl partners poll which suggested that labour were just 12 points ahead? i mean, that's staggering because some of the other polling, this is why polling confuses me. some of the other polling has put labour at 27 points ahead. that's a massive gulf and gap. yes, absolutely. >> so we're at the opposite end of that. you're quite rightly said we're at 12 points. it's important to say we've been using the same methods as we've consistently used over the last three months. we're now going to be updating that weekly. now that the campaign has started, we do something quite different to yougov, and that's part of the reason why we get quite a different answer. so whereas yougov leave don't know. so people who tell pollsters at the moment they don't currently know how they vote. yougov leaves them be at the moment and says that'

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artificial intelligence gpt, openai presented five voice assistants, in one of which sky, actress scarlettized herself. i was shocked, angry and couldn't believe that mr. alzman used a voice so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news publishers. sky was voiced by another person, and after the launch of the project, sam altman published a post on the social network x with one word, she made a reference to the film of the same name, in which the actress voiced: samantha, the voice assistant with whom her owner fell in love. those people who actually wanted to use scarlett johansson’s voice as the voice of their artificial intelligence, voice assistant, they were guided, of course, by some kind of mass media settings, let’s say, yes, that is, people have already they know her voice, it has already sprouted in popular culture, we have already seen this film , just like alice’s voice, we also know it very well. used - as a tool, that is, it already helps designers, sound and text engineers, script writers very well, that is, this does not mean that artificial intelligence will w

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this morning, openai is pausing the use of one of its chatgpt voices after actress scarlett johansson said the voice sounded eerily similar to her own. johansson said she was approached by openai ceo sam altman about doing voice work for the chatbot, but that she declined. after hearing the released demo, she wrote, i was shocked, angered and in disbelief, adding, my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference. the oscar nominated actress hired lawyers to inquire about the process of generating the voice. >> hi. >> hi. how are you doing? >> johansson famously starred in 2013. her playing an ai voice assistant, much like chatgpt product. >> it seems like i'm having so many new feelings that i don't think i've ever been felt before . >> that was her actual voice from the movie, and this is a sample of chatgpt is ai generated chatbot. skye, you've got me on the edge of my. >> well, i don't really have a seat, but you get the idea. >> fans called out the similarity and comments on that youtube video shared by openai. the company disputed the comparison in a blog post, w

scarlett johansson does sound like her.h actress. >> australian. >> thank you not an american actress trying to do a general american accent of somebody who grew up, upper-class. sounds exactly like that so, you know if you close your eyes and play xash scarlett johansson's voigt, woul -- voice, would you know it was her? >> probably not, if it was just cold and just hearing it interesting to me, what do you make of this, jon, if, in fact, openai is so intent on this level of branding. in other words, it's not like our magic technology will sell itself and just be so much better no we have to actually have a thing evocative of this character we know. >> this is just scraping the surface of what they're actually doing. to train these models into, steal, like you said, roll up everything else and roll into it have a new deal just announced with news corp. to play "the journal's" reporting $250 million over a few years expensive. money coming in at this point? >> i think it's cheap. compared to what they're paying -- >> paying

scarlett johansson says robots stole her voice. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> richard: scarlett johansson suing openai because introduced a new voice product and scholars and it sounds eerily similar to her own. remember she was in a movie where she played a voiced robot. >> hi, how are you? >> hello, mark. i'm doing great. thanks for asking. how about you? >> hello, i'm here. >> do you have a name? >> yes. samantha. >> richard: openai said they will remove the voice but they deny that it was johansson's. jesse, they lie end? >> jesse: it was a dastardly move by openai. so they go to johansson early and said would you like to be the voice of this quest my she talks to her team about it, they think it over and say, you know what, i just don't think that's right for me, i'm not comfortable with it, we are going to pass. two days before they launch this thing, they call her back, they said, we'd like to ask you again, would you like to be the voice of our openai? she's a very busy woman, didn't get back to them in 48 hours. they launch it and it is the exact same voice as scarlett johansson. so the team contact

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in fact, actress scarlett johansson sounded the alarm just this past week.'m samantha. >> reporter: a man fell in love with his virtual assistant. johansson is caught in a real-life drama involving artificial intelligence. >> how is it going? >> hey there. >> reporter: speaking out and hiring a lawyer after chatgpt announced a voice that sounded eerily similar to hers. >> it looks like you're feeling pretty happy and cheerful. >> reporter: this, after she had declined multiple times to be part of the project. >> when i heard it, i immediately thought scarlett johansson. >> reporter: johansson saying she was shocked, angered and in disbelief after hearing the voice. >> everyone has the right to make sure companies aren't just taking their voice, their image, their likeness and using it without permission. >> reporter: for hollywood actors, it's their worst fears come to life. sag-aftra -- the same rules don't apply for tech and a.i. misuse can be hard to prove. >> a.i. companies are scraping the internet and taking resources from just anywhere they can find t

it is not just scarlett johansson. actors, one of the reasons i think they were going on strike.uff, no? >> yeah, who would have thought that scarlett johansson was going to be the leading defender of our individual rights in the digital age. she went after disney with black widow and streaming rights. now she is going after openai. at the end of the day our biometric data is ours and somebody cannot trade off that for their benefit. if there is confusion with a brand which clearly based on the fact they tried to get her over and over again, she said no, they're trying to create that level of confusion that is exactly what ip protection is there for. i discuss love the fact that she's the one, the back in the day they had, adam smiths of the world and benjamin frank and we've got, charles, scarlett johansson. you go, girl. charles: we'll take it, we'll take it. we will own something even if it is ourselves. >> that's right, that's right. charles: talk to you again soon. all right, so this earnings season one thing i've been trying to do on this show, you watch, right, you know, t

howard: in the dedicated film scarlett johansson plays in the character that walking phoenix falls in feel the fear that you carry around. and i wish i can hold you i don't think you would feel so alone anymore. >> your beautiful c1 swimming says that open a.i. sam walton would ask her to license her voice for the company's new digital assistant johansson said no, twice, and open a.i. went ahead with a voice that sounds just like scarlet. >> once upon a time in a world not too different from ours, there was a robot named fight and fight was a curious robot and always exploring. >> i want a little bit more emotion in your voice a little bit more,. >> got it, let's add some drama. once upon a time, in a world too different from ours, that was a robot named fight scenic no no no see what mary catherine open a.i. is now withdrawing that scarlet like voice after she hired a lawyer but is in a become of the just two days after she said no again, they open a.i.'s it will other voice artist had nothing to do with the famous actress and what would anybody think that. mary: but we all know it's

scarlett, what do you indeed. scarlett, what do you think ? think?defects, you have to say that, but i mean , i did think, well, but i mean, i did think, well, actually, though, it's a fair to be fair, you're quite right. >> however, under these circumstances or these circumstances or these circumstances . circumstances. >> but as you said, it is two. it is 2 in 2 weeks. and there's more. but when she i mean, i get really fed up with this thing about the tories going that that labour doesn't have a plan. she knows as well as i do that in education what bridget phillipson, the shadow education secretary, wants to do , is secretary, wants to do, is absolutely wonderful. it's massive , massive expansion of massive, massive expansion of early years, which is the best way of levelling up, frankly. we know that if you put the money into the under fives breakfast clubs, which means that every child can get a free meal before they begin school and it gets them providing breakfast for children. >> though . >> though. >> though. >> well, actually, it's it real

hollywood actress scarlett johansson accused the neural network of stealing her voice. did not allow any manipulation with him. sofia sergieva found out how the developers justify themselves. there is another scandal in the usa with the theft of votes, but this time not of voters, but of film actresses. at the presentation of the new version. sky was voiced by another person, and after the launch of the project. altman published in social network x post with one word, she made a reference to the film of the same name, in which the actress voiced samantha, the voice assistant with whom her owner fell in love. those people who actually wanted the voice of scarlett johansson - to use their artificial intelligence, voice assistant, as a voice-over, they were guided, of course, by some kind of mass media settings, let's say, yes, that is, people already know her voice. it has already sprouted in popular culture, we have already seen this film, just like alice’s voice, we know very well too. out of respect for mrs. johanson, skye's voice acting work was suspended. over the pa