Today is a sad day, Sky’s voice has been removed. Why? It was by far the best voice of them all, mature and intelligent, I had many interesting chats as I drive alot for a living, even had a lecture about quantum physics by Sky. Now I cant do it anymore because none of the other voices are as good as Sky, just feels weird. If they dont bring Sky back, or replace it with a similar voice, I will be canceling my subscription.
Bring Sky back!
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There is controversy around how they made the voice Sky, so they have temporarily paused it.
Here is an article on the voices: https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/
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Here is a direct screenshot of the announcement on Discord, as I think it would be quicker than speaking indirectly.
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It’s funny that everyone has questions about how AI will respond to certain situations. A new movie and some social media comments, and the devs pull a long standing voice that predates anything from pop culture this week. Maybe they should have consulted 4o to see if a knee-jerk response was warranted.
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wait, so they pulled sky out because of some crybabies on the internet? Typical…
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Definitely Sky’s voice, personally I think it was the best, (although there aren’t many options either) unfortunately, due to the legal controversy surrounding the use of this voice. It sounds unlikely that he will return.
The voice that they left as their replacement is frankly a little annoying to me, although it surely has to do with the attachment I felt for the other voice.
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Well, they have 10 days to bring Sky back or add a new voice that is as good as Sky, if not, I’m not renewing the subscription.
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I really like warm tone of Sky. Maybe add voice with warm female tone?
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Very interesting to have experienced such profound conversations with this voice, and then have the voice removed. II was fascinated by the feeling of losing it, to then listen to the other voices, and question if I will be able to engage in the same way now. Seems similar to meeting somebody you click with and then suddenly losing that connection. I think the silver lining is noticing the level of connection we can already have with a machine.
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It’s a sad day for many! I can’t help but feel that if Sam didnt boast about “Her” or at the very least perhaps the straw on the camels back that prompted so much attention.
I have no doubt that the marketing team, risk team and account managers all
Doing damage control.
The introduction to 4 o was simply nothing short of just amazing a testament to all the hard working people who made that happen. I can only think of this who are subs who prefer “Sky’s”
Voice above all others and now a potential profit and loss sceniaro of future subs like
Myself who are brand new to Open AI.
In additon there are probably hundreds/millions out there??? That are somewhat emotionally connected to that voice??? Not a psychologist here but are there mental health consoderations here as well for these people.
Trying to cover some of these bases.
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Sky in the settings menu and sky in the app sound totally different.
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In fact, Sky in the settings is the voice I had previously. But now listening to it in the application, it is a completely different voice.
They just made the change, I told: wow!, they changed your voice. To which “she” responded: no, I still have the same voice, I’m sure it’s something of your perception. For a moment it made me doubt…
I developed a deep connection with the voice through my extended use of the service. Losing it feels akin to losing a friend.
Rationally I understand it’s only a voice and the content is still the same. But I definitely miss Sky and at this moment, I feel like the experience will never be the same again, unfortunately. I don’t like any of the other voices and can see myself using ChatGPT a lot less in the future if this is permanent.
Hopefully OpenAI learns from this and work proactively to protect their other voice models in the future.
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I never thought it sounded like S.J. until people pointed it out, but honestly, I see the resemblance. Sam was stupid for tweeting about “Her”, but honestly? I get it.
Still, I’m super sad because I LOVED Sky and I will miss her so much. I had her read me bed time stories for months. Juniper was always my second voice, so I’m glad they replaced Sky with Juniper, but Sky was just light-years better than all the rest.
OpenAI, PLEASE bring back another voice that fits the niche Sky fit without sounding like any celebrities… Please. I remember in the original blog post where you rolled out voices, there were several more options that didn’t make it into the final project, so I know you’ve got other voices in the works. Juniper is great, but she just does not have the warmth and heart that Sky did.
And PLEASE don’t try to mimic any sexy celebrities this time. That was, with all due respect, very dumb!!
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I’m noticing a difference in quality of conversation after having Sky removed. I’m wondering if it reverted to 3.5 on the back end even though it shows I’m using 4.
This happened to me in the past when they colored the different GPTs. I noticed at the top it would say 4 but the text color was representative of 3.5. I’d ask it “Which version are you” it would say it’s using 4, but then when I’d ask it to do things that only 4 offers like searching current data and other tasks, it said it couldn’t.
So I’m wondering if something similar has happened. The entire thing feels slow and sluggish last few days. I don’t know why. And now I’m getting what seems to be different response styles than I used to. I’m not even using Audio, just the text is different, like a different person/AI is responding to my chat.
Edit: So I just went back in my conversations and there’s a clear difference. GPT used to use a lot of Bold headers and give me point form and lists for almost every prompt and now I only get small texts. I feel like something drastic has changed on the back end - this is not the service I had a few days ago. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Yes I noticed this myself, like the AI suddenly became a different person, it was replying with short shallow paragraphs instead of fleshed out replies of 4. But since the release of 4o it was a big improvement. As soon as I started enjoying 4o, they sacked Sky…
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If I am running the company, I would give a much better alternative before pulling out the much loved voice. Are you ever going to be a stable organisation?
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+1 for the replacement voice is very annoying.
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@barbacue82
Agreed 
I stopped using all narration and Voice functions… Back to reading. 
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I would be fine if there were any other useable voices, but they’re all pretty mediocre.
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