With Christmas just a couple of weeks away, children (and adults) the world over are making lists of the things they want Santa to bring down their chimneys. However, ChatGPT will let you go one better, offering you the chance to speak to Santa directly.
OpenAI Adds Santa to Its Advanced Voice Mode
As a seasonal holiday treat, OpenAI has added Santa to ChatGPT’s roster of voices. This means that now, anyone can choose to speak to Santa using ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode.
The other voice options are all still there, but who is going to turn down the chance to speak to Santa over Vale, Spruce, Maple, and the other voices? At least while Santa is available to chat with.
The option to speak to Santa should be available via a snowflake icon displayed to the right of the prompt bar. However, even if you can only see the regular Advanced Voice Mode icon, you should be able to select Santa from the list of voices that appear once tapped.
Even as a grown adult, I had to try speaking to AI Santa for myself. And it’s actually fantastic. There are lots of “ho-ho-hos” and that booming jolly voice we have all come to recognize as being Santa.
I asked ChatGPT’s version of Santa whether he was real, which got a jolly response talking up the magic of Christmas. I also, rather impertinently, asked him why he was so overweight. Which prompted a response about eating too many mince pies every Christmas Eve.
It’s Pretty Magical, Even for This 40-Something
I have to admit, I’m very impressed by ChatGPT’s Santa. It sounds like Santa, it’s as jolly as Santa, and it responds to your questions exactly as you would expect. There may be one too many “ho-ho-hos” for my liking though.
One slight issue is ChatGPT’s terms of use requiring all users to be at least 13-years-old. Which means the core demographic of people who would get a kick out of conversing with Santa are locked out of doing so. Unless parents decide to access Santa Mode alongside their kid(s).
ChatGPT’s Santa voice will be available worldwide until early January. At which point, no one will care about him anyway. Still, this opens up the possibility of ChatGPT getting more fictional character voices as occasional treats throughout the year.
