The final applause sounded earlier than expected for Alex, Emilia and Jakub. These three young radio hosts, entirely generated by artificial intelligence (AI), began their adventure on Tuesday, October 22, on the online radio station Off Radio Krakow. These avatars did not limit themselves to writing articles that aligned ChatGPT-style topics with the aspirations of Generation Z (born between the late 90s and early 2010s) or presenting music programs on the little sister of Radio Krakow, a public service radio station. in Krakow. Emilia also spoke with the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska.
Who died in 2012, this Krakow native won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. On Off Radio Krakow, she spoke about the South Korean Han Kang, Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, who, according to the deceased, signed “a masterpiece” with his novel There 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 lesson and concluded that continuing would be foolish.” its administrator, Marcin Pulit, said 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 is irresponsible”
Officially, for the radio it was about carrying out an experiment on the use of artificial intelligence in the media. Thanks to an article on Thursday, October 21, the Off Radio Krakow website stated that it was about finding an answer to the question “Is artificial intelligence a blessing or a threat? [pour les médias, la radio et le journalisme] ? »
Only, 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 ads were chaotic. It’s irresponsible. We should not be carrying out experiments of this nature with taxpayers’ money. the journalist argued.
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