OpenAI said that it plans to pull a speaking voice that sounds eerily similar to that of actress Scarlett Johansson from its ChatGPT service.

OpenAI announced Sunday it would pause one of the voices of ChatGPT, "Sky," which had made waves for its resemblance to Scarlett Johansson's voice.

OpenAI Pulls ChatGPT Voice ‘Sky’ After Users Say It Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson in ‘Her’ “Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different ...

Johansson says she was approached multiple times by OpenAI to be the voice of ChatGPT, and that she declined. Then the company released a voice assistant that sounded uncannily like her.

OpenAI paused a chatbot voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson's disembodied AI companion in Spike Jonze's m"Her," the company is suspending the voice for the time being.

OpenAI is now pausing its “Sky” voice profile for its new GPT-4o model chatbot after users noted it sounds remarkably similar to actor Scarlett Johansson.

During the demonstration of GPT-4o an audience member noticed the striking similarity, but OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati denied that the voice was designed to sound like Johansson.

OpenAI said in a blog post that the voice was sampled from an undisclosed actor and wasn't designed to sound like Scarlett Johansson.

OpenAI paused the use of the ChatGPT voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson amid controversy, insisting that it was not an imitation of the actress.

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson in the 2013 AI movie Her, Sky voice had been part of ChatGPT Voice Mode.