The lead researcher in the OpenAI language is leaving the company

The researcher from OpenAI behind the company voice software announced on Tuesday that he was leaving the company — and joked about creating “It,” in a nod to the controversy surrounding the software.

Alexis Conneau, who was the spearhead GTP-4o software, he posted on Twitter: “After an amazing trip to @OpenAI building #Her, I decided to start a new company.”

“More to come soon. Get in touch if you’re excited to build something #magical – we’re hiring,” he said, along with a gif from the 2013 film Theyin which Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with an AI software voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI known to be a big fan of Johansson’s worknamely the 2013 film They.

The GTP-4o received significant backlash after its debut because the voice sounded so similar to Johansson’s in the film.

Johansson herself said she refused to work with the company on the software after they asked. She added that she was “shocked, angry and in disbelief”. OpenAI however used a “eerily similar” voice to her.

“Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to express the current ChatGPT 4.0 system,” Johansson wrote in a statement reported by NPR.

She added that Altman contacted his agent again and asked him to reconsider a partnership just days before the company released a demo of the new ChatGPT voice.

OpenAI later warned users in a report that they might become emotionally attached to his voice if they’re not careful, as GPT-4o’s “human, high-fidelity voice” might make the hallucinationsor a model’s tendency to make up false or meaningless information, worse.

Conneau hasn’t given too many details about what his next project is. When someone on Twitter asked what his AI timeline was, he replied, “I’m more into general emotional intelligence!”