{"id":844591,"date":"2025-12-13T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/C85RShquMueFsvf6tXqfx5"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:24:11","slug":"openai-pauses-use-of-gpt-4o-her-voice-due-to-similarity-to-scarlett-johansson-so-eerily-similar-my-closest-friends-and-news-outlets-could-not-tell-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/openai-pauses-use-of-gpt-4o-her-voice-due-to-similarity-to-scarlett-johansson-so-eerily-similar-my-closest-friends-and-news-outlets-could-not-tell-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI pauses use of GPT-4o &#8216;Her&#8217; voice due to similarity to Scarlett Johansson: &#8216;so eerily similar\u2026 my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The latest version of ChatGPT will talk to you. It sounds eerily similar to a human being, too. That&apos;s swiftly become a problem for the company behind it, OpenAI, which has announced it will be removing one of ChatGPT&apos;s voices for sounding too similar to Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working to pause the use of Sky,&#8221; OpenAI said in a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAI\/status\/1792443575839678909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company has also published a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post on how it created the voices<\/a> for the chatbot&apos;s Voice Mode. It includes the key characteristics it was aiming for with each of the five voices used in the program, which include a sense of timelessness, being approachable, and being easy to listen to. And yet the voice assistant feature still makes for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/openai-unveils-gpt-4o-with-a-video-of-a-man-making-small-talk-with-his-phone-and-i-cannot-pretend-its-not-really-weird\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awkward watching<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post says that professional voice actors were used for each of the voices: Breeze, Cover, Ember, Juniper, and Sky.<\/p>\n<p>Also mentioned is how OpenAI believes &#8220;AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity&apos;s distinctive voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sky, however, does sound <em>a lot<\/em> like another famous AI, and in turn its celebrity voice actor. The emotive AI assistant in Her, a movie directed by Spike Jonze, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has been keen to suggest similarities to the movie Her. During the new voice mode&apos;s announcement, as a part of GPT 4o, Altman posted a short but suggestive post on X that simply read: &#8220;her&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">her<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1790075827666796666\">May 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container\"><span class=\"see-more__button\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"See more\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Johansson, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/05\/20\/1252495087\/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaking to NPR<\/a>, Altman had also hoped to go one further than merely sounding similar. Altman had reached out to Johansson to try to secure the actor&apos;s permission to use their voice for the ChatGPT feature, seemingly to recreate the Her experience. The actor said Altman believed Johansson&apos;s voice would be &#8220;comforting to people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6zCA2TwA7NKq9vjc7PNgVb\" name=\"gpt-4o.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from an OpenAI video showing off new GPT-4o features.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/openai-pauses-use-of-gpt-4o-her-voice-due-to-similarity-to-scarlett-johansson-so-eerily-similar-my-closest-friends-and-news-outlets-could-not-tell-the-difference.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">An OpenAI employee showing off the new voice assistant feature. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: OpenAI)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Johansson ended up rejecting the offer, citing personal reasons. Altman then tried to reconnect two days prior to the feature&apos;s announcement. Before him and Johansson could speak, it was released.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson says she was shocked to then hear similarities to her own voice in the voice feature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference,&#8221; Johansson said.<\/p>\n<p>The actor&apos;s lawyers reached out to OpenAI to find out how it had ended up creating the Sky voice.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the actor&apos;s comments, Altman said: &#8220;We cast the voice actor behind Sky&apos;s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have paused using Sky&apos;s voice in our products. We are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn&apos;t communicate better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&apos;s CTO, Mira Murati, denied deliberately designing the Sky voice to be similar to Johansson&apos;s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">AI, explained<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eQ4QvnT5n24R9f4nQNq5MP\" name=\"GettyImages-1245391728.jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen and ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 5, 2022.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/openai-pauses-use-of-gpt-4o-her-voice-due-to-similarity-to-scarlett-johansson-so-eerily-similar-my-closest-friends-and-news-outlets-could-not-tell-the-difference-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Jakub Porzycki\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/general-intelligence-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is artificial general intelligence?<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> We dive into the lingo of AI and what the terms actually mean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Voice acting is one of the many industries that has been impacted by the rollout of artificial intelligence, as it&apos;s able to put a lifelike voice to text. You can definitely argue it&apos;s not quite there yet, but that&apos;s a gap likely to be bridged by ever improving AI technology. How closely can these AI-generated voices sound to famous celebrities before they intrude on a living person&apos;s likeness? This case highlights a much wider case for the proper use of AI in creative industries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to resolution in the form of transparency and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected,&#8221; Johansson said of legal safeguards for actors in light of AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>There are concerns that voice actors may feel pressured to sign away their likeness to firms that intend to use it <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5d37za\/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indefinitely for the creation of AI voices<\/a>, or that newer voice actors may do so unwittingly. I&apos;ve spoken to union representatives who have raised concerns around AI language used in acting contracts in the UK, and\u00a0<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-67922303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sag-Aftra members in the US have raised the alarm<\/a> around poor deals to cover voice actors working in gaming. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/openai-pauses-use-of-gpt-4o-her-voice-due-to-similarity-to-scarlett-johansson-so-eerily-similar-my-closest-friends-and-news-outlets-could-not-tell-the-difference\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of ChatGPT will talk to you. It sounds eerily similar to a human being, too. That&apos;s swiftly become a problem for the company behind it, OpenAI, which has announced it will be removing one of ChatGPT&apos;s voices for sounding too similar to Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson. &#8220;We are working to pause the use of Sky,&#8221; OpenAI said in a post on X.\u00a0 The company has also published a blog post on how it created the voices for the chatbot&apos;s Voice Mode. It includes the key characteristics it was aiming for with each of the five voices used in the program, which include a sense of timelessness, being approachable, and being easy to listen to. 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