The final clap sounded earlier than expected for Alex, Emilia and Jakub. These three young radio presenters, entirely generated by artificial intelligence (AI), started their adventure on Tuesday October 22 on the online radio station Off Radio Krakow. These avatars did not just write articles aligning ChatGPT-style platitudes with the aspirations of Generation Z (born between the late 1990s and early 2010s) or host musical shows on little sister of Radio Krakow, public service radio in Krakow. Emilia also spoke with Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska.
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Died in 2012, this Krakowian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. On Off Radio Krakow, she spoke about the South Korean Han Kang, Nobel Prize for Literature 2024, who, according to the deceased, signed “a masterpiece” with his novel The Vegetarian (The Feathered Serpent, 2015). Both the “voice” and the words of this Polish personality were 100% invented by the machine. The radio also planned to “chat” with the writer Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) and with Marshal Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935). However, the lively controversy that such an approach aroused did not allow them to be “heard”.
“We had planned for this project to last three months, but after a week we received so many messages that we learned our lessons and concluded that continuing it would be nonsense,” said its administrator, Marcin Pulit, in a press release. “We were surprised by the level of emotion this generated”he continues, before concluding on the need to regulate AI in Poland.
“It’s irresponsible”
Officially, for the radio, it was a question of carrying out an experiment on the use of artificial intelligence in the media. Thanks to an article dated Thursday October 21, the Off Radio Krakow website stated that it was a question of finding an answer to the question “Is artificial intelligence a boon or a threat? [pour les médias, la radio et le journalisme] ? »
Except that, as Mateusz Demski, a radio employee fired at the end of August, points out, the attempt was amateurish. “No data or methodology was provided. Even the radio announcements were chaotic. It’s irresponsible. We should not carry out experiments of this nature with taxpayers’ money. argued the journalist.
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