OpenAI Pulls ‘Horny’ ChatGPT Voice, Denies It’s a Scarlett Johansson Knockoff
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It turns out all the jokes about the sci-fi movie AI companion “Her“—which even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman encouraged—were no laughing matter. After OpenAI released its multimodal language model GPT-4o touting its ability to interact via voice, the company Monday announced that it is pausing the development of the voice named “Sky.” The decision had come amid a wave of suggestive comments, memes, and comparisons to the “Her” character, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Within hours, the actress released a statement announcing that she had retained legal counsel after she had twice turned down requests to use her voice prior to last week’s unveiling. “I was shocked, angered, and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine,” Johansson said. Her attorneys sent letters to Altman and OpenAI, asking them to explain how they created the “Sky” voice. Notably, Altman cryptically tweeted the single word “her” just ahead of the unveiling, possibly within hours of his second attempt to secure Johansson’s participation—an action highlighted in her statement. The reponse from OpenAI—including a blog post detailing how the voices were developed—seems to directly anwser one of Johansson’s questions. “We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them,” OpenAI stated yesterday. We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them. Read more about how we chose these voices: https://t.co/R8wwZjU36L — OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 20, 2024 Joanne Jang, model behavior lead at OpenAI, acknowledged the confusion and concerns surrounding the “Sky” voice, telling The Verge, “We want to take the feedback seriously and hear out the concerns.” OpenAI’s new voices were unveiled last…
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