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Rachyl Jones

Developers criticize OpenAI for disabling the AI voice for ChatGPT that sounded like Scarlett Johansson in ‘Her’

Sam Altman sits with hands out. (Credit: Getty Images)

At an event last year, OpenAI chief Sam Altman said his favorite science fiction movie was Her, the 2013 film in which a man falls in love with a virtual assistant. Now, that same movie is causing the latest headache for Altman and his executive team. 

In September—the same month Altman revealed his top film—OpenAI released a set of voices to compliment its ChatGPT large language model. One of those voices, a sophisticated-sounding woman named Sky, has garnered media attention in the last week for sounding similar to the very AI bot at the center of Her, voiced by actress Scarlett Johansson. 

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