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diff --git a/content/blog/2024/ai-radio.md b/content/blog/2024/ai-radio.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ed34eb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/ai-radio.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ ++++ +title = "AI radio is straight out of a nightmare" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-10-22T17:58:00+02:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2001 +image_dir = "blog/images" +image_max_width = 600 +Abstract = "The death of a radio" +Listening = "GenAI bullshit" ++++ + +So, [OFF Radio](https://off.radiokrakow.pl/) fired all their contractors and replaced them with AI. +It went smooth as butter. + +I tuned in just to check how it's going and, oh boy, if it isn't the stuff of nightmares. +AI Emilia is interviewing Wisława Szymborska. +What shocked me first, was that the AI persona is perfectly mimicking human tone - pauses, tones, sometimes mispronounces and corrects itself. +If I didn't knew, I would not know from the audio alone. + +But that's not the biggest problem. +Szymborska died 12 years ago. +She **was** a word-renowned poet awarded with a Nobel prize. +How shameless OFF Radio needs to be? + +One of the questions the AI was asking was "which polish books deserve Nobel prizes". +AI Szymborska proposed Olga Tokarczuk's _Empuzjon_ which was released just 2 years ago: + +> ...In my humble opinion, _Empozjum_ is a masterpiece... + +It also stated that _this year's_ Nobel award was well earned: + +> ...I know her prose and I like the way she writes about... + +Does it count as "bullshitting" or is it still within normal operation of the model? + +Also, interviews with Szymborska were made a long time ago. +Therefore, the audio quality of the training materials was not perfect. +As a result, fake-Szymbroska voice was accompanied by constant hiss. + +I am simply sad. +Not even angry, as I hope this "experiment" will stop extremely soon, but milking Szymborska is disgusting. +OFF radio is part of the Polish, national radio, what adds injury to the insult. + +There was a warning that this program was created with help of AI and I tuned in halfway through, so there may have been better warnings because "help" is not what I got. +I have no reason to listen to OFF Radio ever again and the social media is furious. + +As a cherry on top: the AI personas have descriptions under "Off Peple" link. +[One](https://off.radiokrakow.pl/off-ludzie/alex) of those is supposed to be an social activist working for human rights. +Fits nicely with "hey, let's fire 12 people". + +But the bigger question is: how fast will **all** of human knowledge be polluted and intertwined with such records enough, to become useless? +How fast will people start thinking that Szymborska had a chance to read _Empozjum_? + +(you can read the entire "interview" [online)](https://off.radiokrakow.pl/newsy/wislawa-szymborska-o-literackiej-nagrodzie-nobla-2024-i-literaturze-koreanskiej). |