A Polish radio station replaced human journalists with AI-generated presenters and conducted fake interviews with deceased cultural figures, including Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska, sparking public outrage before ending the experiment.
Off Radio Krakow, a state-funded Polish radio station in Krakow, dismissed its human journalists and launched an AI experiment using three computer-generated presenters named Emilia, Jakub, and Alex. The station used OpenAI's ChatGPT, ElevenLabs speech synthesis software, and Leonardo.Ai image generation to create these virtual hosts. The controversy peaked when the station aired a fake interview with deceased Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska, who died in 2012, using AI to generate her voice. The station also planned interviews with other deceased figures like Jozef Pilsudski who died in 1935. The experiment aimed to revive a station with 'close to zero' listeners and succeeded in growing the audience to 8,000 overnight. However, public outrage from journalists, cultural figures, and government officials led to the experiment being terminated after one week instead of the planned three months. Terminated journalists Lukasz Zaleski and Mateusz Demski launched a petition signed by over 23,000 people protesting the replacement of human workers with AI. The station's editor Mariusz Marcin Pulit defended the experiment as a way to spark debate about AI regulation but ultimately ended it due to the intense public reaction.
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