A voice cannot be copyrighted. Altman was being courteous and professional by trying to sign a deal with her. But, he didn't have to and could have used a varia

A voice cannot be copyrighted. Altman was being courteous and professional by trying to sign a deal with her. But, he didn't have to and could have used a variation of her voice. >The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson's, and it was never intended to resemble hers,” Altman told Forbes in a statement. “We cast the voice actor behind Sky's voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. >Days before OpenAI demonstrated its new, flirty voice assistant last week, the actress Scarlett Johansson said, Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive, called her agent and asked that she consider licensing her voice for a virtual assistant. >It was his second request to the actress in the past year, Ms. Johansson said in a statement on Monday, adding that the reply both times was no.