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\u201cWe\u2019ve been in conversations with ScarJo\u2019s team because there seems to be some confusion. We want to take the feedback seriously and hear out the concerns,\u201d says Joanne Jang, model behavior lead at OpenAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Johansson has since responded with a statement of her own<\/a>, saying, \u201cLast September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system… After much consideration and for personal reasons, I declined the offer. Nine months later, my friends, family and the general public all noted how much the newest system named \u201cSky\u201d sounded like me.\u201d Altman and OpenAI maintained that the voice of Sky \u201cis not Scarlett Johansson\u2019s\u201d and said, \u201cWe are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn\u2019t communicate better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n OpenAI pulled Sky, one of the default voices on ChatGPT, after it made headlines last week for sounding just like Johansson in her role as an intelligent voice assistant in the movie Her<\/em>. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told The Verge<\/em> in an interview last week<\/a> that the company did not intend to mimic Johansson\u2019s sultry AI assistant. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jang, who is part of the team that casts actors to provide voices to the chatbot, says that people may be hearing similarities between Johansson\u2019s character <\/em>and OpenAI\u2019s voice because there are few examples of convincing female voice assistants around. Other voice assistants, like Siri and Alexa, \u201cstill sound robotic,\u201d Jang says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ChatGPT has had voices since last year, but Sky\u2019s voice did not gain prominence until last week when the company made voice assistants more expressive through its GPT-4o model<\/a>. Jang says users can prompt their chosen voice to have a personality, so Sky or any of the other voices on ChatGPT can be peppy, more measured, or even sad, depending on the user and the personality they most connect with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe want users to feel at ease,\u201d Jang says, and customization is important to making the experience feel natural to users. \u201cWe know they want a product that [doesn\u2019t make users] have to pretend to be someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n