What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona? | Arwa Mahdawi

OpenAI's updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it felt a lot like the magician was a horny 12-year-old boy who had just watched the Spike Jonze movie Her.

If you aren't up to speed on GPT-4o (the o stands for omni") it's basically an all-singing, all-dancing, all-seeing version of the original chatbot. You can now interact with it the same way you'd interact with a human, rather than via text-based questions. It can give you advice, it can rate your jokes, it can describe your surroundings, it can banter with you. It sounds human. It feels like AI from the movies," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a blog post on Monday. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change."