OpenAI to ‘pause’ voice linked to Scarlett Johansson

OpenAI to ‘pause’ voice linked to Scarlett Johansson

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California – ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Monday mentioned it was engaged on  briefly muting an artificial voice that sounds rather a lot like that of actress Scarlett Johansson.

The synthetic intelligence powerhouse mentioned in a weblog submit that the “Sky” voice at problem was based mostly on the pure talking voice of a unique skilled actress and never meant to sound like Johansson.

“We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity’s distinctive voice,” OpenAI mentioned within the submit.

“Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson.”

OpenAI is engaged on a option to “pause” Sky because it addresses what seems to be confusion about who it seems like, the corporate mentioned in a submit on X, previously Twitter.

“We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky,” OpenAI mentioned.

The firm defined that it labored with skilled voice actors on artificial voices it named Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper, and Sky.

Sky grew to become the main focus of consideration final week when OpenAI launched a higher-performing and much more human-like GPT-4o model of the substitute intelligence expertise that underpins ChatGPT.

In a demo, the brand new model Sky was much more human-like than earlier iterations and at occasions even flirtatious, humorous and able to seamlessly leaping from one matter to the following, in contrast to most present chatbots.

Several observers famous the resemblance with Johansson, whose voice performed the central character within the movie “Her”, a cautionary story in regards to the future wherein a person falls in love with an AI chatbot.

Adding to the confusion, on the day of the demo, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a single phrase tweet on X: “Her”.

OpenAI mentioned it was working to deal with the misperception simply days after confirming it disbanded a staff dedicated to mitigating the long-term risks of synthetic intelligence.

OpenAI weeks in the past started dissolving the so-called “superalignment” group, integrating members into different tasks and analysis, in response to the San Francisco-based agency.

Company co-founder Ilya Sutskever and superalignment staff co-leader Jan Leike introduced their departures from the ChatGPT-maker final week. — Agence France-Presse

Source: www.gmanetwork.com