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OpenAI starts rolling out its Her-like voice mode for ChatGPT
The Scarlett Johansson-like voice isn’t part of the product.
The feature, which OpenAI showed off at its GPT-4o launch event in May, was criticized for sounding similar to Scarlett Johansson and was later delayed for safety reasons. The advanced mode was set to release in alpha in late June, but OpenAI delayed the rollout by one month to “reach our bar to launch.” As part of that delay, the company said it was “improving the model’s ability to detect and refuse certain content.” OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says the company tested the voice model’s capabilities with more than 100 external red teamers (people who try to attack technologies to find weaknesses). During OpenAI’s event, one of the key criticisms of the new mode was how much the onstage voice, dubbed “Sky,” sounded like Johansson, who played an AI personality in the movie Her.
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