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May 21, 2024, 6:25 pmChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Monday said it was working on temporarily muting a synthetic voice that sounds a lot like that of actress Scarlett Johansson.
“We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity’s distinctive voice,” OpenAI said in the post.OpenAI is working on a way to “pause” Sky as it addresses what appears to be confusion about who it sounds like, the company said in a post on X.The company explained that it worked with professional voice actors on synthetic voices it named Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper, and Sky.
In a demo, the new version of Sky was at times even flirtatious and funny, capable of seamlessly jumping from one topic to the next, unlike most existing chatbots. Adding to the confusion, on the day of the demo, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a single word tweet on X: “Her.”Microsoft vice president Yusuf Mehdi told AFP his company, which has a partnership with OpenAI, sought to make sure that AI was not “a he or a she,” but rather a “unique entity.”OpenAI said it was working to address the problem just days after confirming it disbanded a team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of artificial intelligence.
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