“Scarlett Johansson Says She Is “Shocked, Angered” over New ChatGPT Voice”, 2024-05-20 (; backlinks):
…But later, OpenAI executives denied any connection between Johansson and the new voice assistant. Then the company suddenly dropped the voice.
In a post on Twitter just before midnight Pacific time Sunday, OpenAI said the voice would be halted as it addresses “questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT.” A company spokeswoman would not provide further detail.
Turns out, Altman had been courting the Hollywood star for months, and she now feels betrayed.
…OpenAI’s Altman denied there is any connection between Johansson and its Sky voice.
“We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have paused using Sky’s voice in our products. We are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn’t communicate better”, Altman wrote in a statement to NPR.
…In an interview with NPR last week, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said the company did not pattern any ChatGPT voices on Johansson’s sultry computer voice in the movie.
“It says more about our imagination, our storytelling as a society than about the technology itself”, Murati said. “The way we developed this technology is not based on the movie or a sci-fi story. We’re trying to build these machines that can think and have robust understandings of the world. I don’t know about the voice. I actually had to go and listen to Scarlett Johansson’s voice”, she said.
Asked about ChatGPT’s flirtatious banter, Murati said the model merely responds to what people provide to it.
“It will react to how you’re interacting with it”, she said. “It’s not preset. It’s based on inputs”, Murati said.
In its Sunday night blog post, OpenAI said that chatbot was developed with 5 voices that were produced after working closely with voice and screen actors. “Looking ahead, you can expect even more options as we plan to introduce additional voices in ChatGPT to better match the diverse interests and preferences of users”, the company wrote in the post.
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