KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 -- OpenAI has suspended the voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson on its voice-enabled chatbot following complaints from the American actress.

The news came a week after the company launched the voice, called Sky, that was part of OpenAI's GPT-4o, Variety reported.

When it was launched, many had noticed that the voice sounded very much like Johansson's disembodied AI companion in Spike Jonze's 2013 movie Her.

In a statement, the company said they believed AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice claiming that Sky's voice was not an imitation of Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice.

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