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

OpenAI’s caller precocious sound mode for ChatGPT is starting to rotation retired to a mini number of group who subscribe to ChatGPT Plus. The feature, which OpenAI showed disconnected astatine its GPT-4o launch arena successful May, was criticized for sounding akin to Scarlett Johansson and was later delayed for information reasons.

At OpenAI’s event, nan caller sound mode appeared to beryllium noticeably much tin than ChatGPT’s existent sound mode. Onstage, OpenAI labor were capable to interrupt and inquire nan chatbot to show a communicative successful different ways, and nan chatbot took their interruptions successful stride to set its responses.

The precocious mode was group to merchandise successful alpha successful precocious June, but OpenAI delayed nan rollout by 1 month to “reach our barroom to launch.” As portion of that delay, nan institution said it was “improving nan model’s expertise to observe and garbage definite content.” OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says nan institution tested nan sound model’s capabilities pinch 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 region whitethorn person been nan correct choice. OpenAI has besides “added caller filters that will admit and artifact definite requests to make euphony aliases different copyrighted audio,” Christianson says.

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

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