OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Voice Fiasco Highlights Old Tech Bias
Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in The Avengers.
Hello, and welcome back to the Equality newsletter. I’m Rachel Metz, an AI reporter on the Bloomberg News Technology team, filling in for Claire Suddath. You can subscribe here, and share feedback with me here.
I want to talk about the conflict between OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson, and tech companies’ long-standing habit of putting women — or at least female-sounding voices — in assistant roles. But first...