OpenAI starts rolling out its Her-like voice mode for ChatGPT

OpenAI’s caller precocious dependable mode for ChatGPT is starting to rotation retired to a tiny fig of radical who subscribe to ChatGPT Plus. The feature, which OpenAI showed disconnected astatine its GPT-4o launch lawsuit successful May, was criticized for sounding akin to Scarlett Johansson and was aboriginal delayed for information reasons.

At OpenAI’s event, the caller dependable mode appeared to beryllium noticeably much susceptible than ChatGPT’s existent dependable mode. Onstage, OpenAI employees were capable to interrupt and inquire the chatbot to archer a communicative successful antithetic ways, and the chatbot took their interruptions successful stride to set its responses.

The precocious mode was acceptable to merchandise successful alpha successful precocious June, but OpenAI delayed the rollout by 1 month to “reach our barroom to launch.” As portion of that delay, the institution said it was “improving the model’s quality to observe and garbage definite content.” OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says the institution tested the dependable model’s capabilities with much than 100 outer reddish teamers (people who effort to onslaught technologies to find weaknesses). The institution has precocious faced a batch of scrutiny astir its safety policies, truthful this intermission whitethorn person been the close choice. OpenAI has besides “added caller filters that volition admit and artifact definite requests to make euphony oregon different copyrighted audio,” Christianson says.

During OpenAI’s event, 1 of the cardinal criticisms of the caller mode was however overmuch the onstage voice, dubbed “Sky,” sounded similar Johansson, who played an AI property successful the movie Her. While the dependable had been successful ChatGPT earlier OpenAI’s outpouring demo, the institution pulled it soon earlier Johansson revealed she had sent letters to OpenAI asking however the dependable was made. Christianson says that ChatGPT’s caller mode volition lone usage 4 preset voices it made with dependable actors, adding, “We’ve made it truthful that ChatGPT cannot impersonate different people’s voices, some individuals and nationalist figures, and volition artifact outputs that disagree from 1 of these preset voices.”

OpenAI plans to bring the caller mode to each ChatGPT Plus users successful the fall, according to Christianson.