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[00:00.39] The American artificial intelligence company OpenAI has removed one of its ChatGPT voices.
[00:10.22] The move came after actor Scarlett Johansson said the voice sounded “eerily similar” to her voice in the movie Her.
[00:22.43] In a post Monday on the social media service X, OpenAI said it is “working to pause” Sky.
[00:32.53] That is the name of one of five voices that ChatGPT users can choose to speak with in its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.
[00:44.22] In a statement, Johansson said that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had asked her last September if she would lend her voice to the ChatGPT system.
[00:58.82] Johansson said she declined the offer.
[01:02.80] Johansson said, “When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine.”
[01:19.54] She added that her close friends and even the news media “could not tell the difference” between her voice and the voice of Sky.
[01:29.64] Johansson said OpenAI agreed to take down the Sky voice after her lawyers asked about the process by which the company came up with the voice.
[01:42.91] OpenAI said in an online post that the voice of Sky belongs to a “different professional actress.”
[01:51.67] But it added that it could not share the name of that actress for privacy reasons.
[01:58.59] In an email sent to The Associated Press following Johansson’s statement Monday, Altman said that OpenAI selected the voice actor behind Sky “before any outreach” to Johansson.
[02:15.32] “The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson’s, and it was never intended to resemble hers,” Altman added.
[02:24.35] OpenAI added voice capabilities to ChatGPT last September.
[02:30.73] The feature is called “Voice Mode.”
[02:33.91] It permits users to have a conversation with the AI assistant.
[02:39.76] In November, OpenAI announced that the feature would become free for all users with the mobile app.
[02:48.52] Last week, OpenAI showed off its latest AI model, called ChatGPT-4o.
[02:57.02] The program lets users speak to the chatbot and get real-time answers.
[03:03.13] The chatbot now has emotion in its voice and even tries to understand a person’s emotional state by looking at a selfie video of their face.
[03:16.94] The capabilities have brought comparisons to the 2013 movie Her.
[03:22.25] The film follows a man who falls in love with an AI assistant, which is voiced by Johansson.
[03:31.55] Altman appeared to make the same comparison.
[03:44.03] He wrote the word “her” on the social media service X on the day of GPT-4o’s release.
