Open ChatGPT and you can choose between different voices. Some feel obviously feminine, others masculine, and several are more neutral. They also have fairly neutral names too, like Ember, Sol and Juniper.
But it wasn’t always that way. For years, many AI-powered assistants arrived with a default setting: female. Although ChatGPT isn’t exactly the same kind of system as the early voice assistants that first entered our homes, think back to their names: Siri, Alexa, Cortana. Even when they weren’t explicitly gendered, the voices often were.
