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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Glenn CHAPMAN

INSANE: Openai worries its ai voice may charm users | Rare Historical Photos

Actors Scarlett Johansson (R) and Joaquin Phoenix starred in the 2013 fiction film 'Her', in which a man falls in love with a human sounding AI assistant (Credit: AFP)

OpenAI says it is concerned that a realistic voice feature for its artificial intelligence might cause people to bond with the bot at the cost of human interactions.

The San Francisco-based company cited literature which it said indicates that chatting with AI as one might with a person can result in misplaced trust and that the high quality of the GPT-4o voice may exacerbate that effect.

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