Scarlett Johansson accuses OpenAI of voice copying, U.S. Department of Justice investigates Ticketmaster and Live Nation

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review. This is TechCrunch’s newsletter that summarizes the biggest news of the week. OpenAI announced that it's removing a voice called Sky from its new GPT-4o model because it sounded too much like Scarlett Johansson's AI character in the movie "Her." Scarlett Johansson hired legal help to find out how the voice was made. Even though OpenAI says the voice wasn't based on Johansson's, she claims they asked her before to use her voice for the model. CEO Maëlle Gavet is leaving the company at the end of the month, and David Cohen will replace her. Slack might be using your messages to train its AI services. If you don't want your data to be used, you can email Slack to opt out. Humane, the company behind the $700 Ai Pin, might be looking to sell itself for $750 million to $1 billion. A laundry app made $4.2 million after its launch. CEO Garry Tan shared the secret to getting into a startup accelerator in a talk with General Catalyst’s Teresa Carlson. OpenAI's voice assistant doesn't sound exactly like Scarlett Johansson. Even though Johansson refused to let OpenAI use her voice, the company's CEO, Sam Altman, used a voice that she finds very similar to hers. The new AI can imitate the way Johansson's character in "Her" spoke. The AI assistant is a great example of technology. It's not overly sexualized like some other AI assistants. In the future, people might be able to upload their own voices to create AI assistants. The AI assistants may have different personalities to choose from. There are two types of people when it comes to technology. Some see movies like "Her" as a warning about the future, while others see them as something to aspire to. Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of copying her voice for their ChatGPT without her permission. She said that Altman approached her nine months ago to use her voice for the new assistant. Johansson was shocked to hear the released demo, as it sounded very similar to her voice. Altman even tweeted the word 'her,' referring to the movie where Johansson voiced a chat system. Johansson believes that Altman intentionally used her voice, even after she said no. OpenAI paused the feature but denied that the voice was Johansson's. They said it belongs to a different actress using her own voice. Johansson and others think there was intent behind using her voice, despite OpenAI's denial.