OpenAI announced that it has suspended the artificial intelligence voice named Sky in the ChatGPT productive artificial intelligence chatbot due to its similarity to the beautiful actress Scarlett Johansson. We would also like to remind you that Johansson voiced the artificial intelligence assistant named Samantha in the 2013 science-fiction movie Her (Love), also starring Joaquin Phoenix.
The explanation is about how AI voices in ChatGPT are created. in the blog post took place. OpenAI decided to launch an investigation after many users said that Sky’s voice sounded like Scarlett Johansson. The company is a member of account X in post He stated: “We’ve heard questions about how we select voices on ChatGPT, particularly Sky. We’re working to pause Sky usage while we resolve the issues.â€
OpenAI said it has received applications from more than 400 voice and film actors to have their voices considered for ChatGPT’s audio in 2023. The company kept applying until five actors were finally selected. The names OpenAI gave to the artificial intelligence voices of these actors are Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.
OpenAI also provided more details about Sky’s voice: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately imitate a celebrity’s unique voice; Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson, but belongs to a different professional actress who uses her natural speaking voice. We cannot share the names of our voice actors in order to protect their privacy.â€
OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence model, ChatGPT-4o, will include its own voice mode for ChatGPT Plus users in the coming weeks.
