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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"
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Abstract = "A radio replaced speakers with GenAI"
Listening = "GenAI bullshit"
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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).