AI needs adult supervision
Whether OpenAI did or didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice to front ChatGPT’s “Sky” personality, it’s somewhat telling that people don’t seem to find it hard to imagine OpenAI CEO Sam Altman capable of the misappropriation. Despite the promise of AI, we keep seeing examples of AI run amok, as with Google’s attempts to set AI loose on search results (to very bad effect in some instances). Speaking of the Johansson incident, Charlie Warzel writes in The Atlantic that this seems like “yet another example of a tech company blowing past ethical concerns and operating with impunity.”