Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' following outcry

A Polish power position says it has ended an “experiment” that progressive utilizing AI-generated “presenters” alternatively of existent journalists aft nan move sparked an outcry

WARSAW, Poland -- A Polish power position said Monday that it has ended an “experiment” that progressive utilizing AI-generated "presenters" alternatively of existent journalists aft nan move sparked an outcry.

Weeks aft dismissing its journalists, OFF Radio Krakow relaunched past week utilizing virtual characters created by AI arsenic its presenters.

Across Poland, group were angry, expressing fears that humans were being replaced by AI.

The station's editor, Marcin Pulit, said successful a connection Monday that nan purpose had been to spark a statement astir artificial intelligence, and that it had succeeded. He said nan research had been meant to past 3 months but that it saw nary logic to spell on.

“After a week, we had collected truthful galore observations, opinions, and conclusions that we decided that its continuation was pointless,” Pulit wrote.

He said nan position was “surprised by nan level of emotion that accompanied this experiment, attributing to america non-existent intentions and actions, harsh judgments formulated connected nan ground of mendacious reports.”

The position successful nan confederate metropolis of Krakow had said its avatars were designed to scope younger listeners by speaking astir cultural, creation and societal issues including nan concerns of LGBTQ+ people.

The alteration past week sewage nationwide attraction aft Mateusz Demski, a journalist and movie professional who until precocious hosted a show connected nan station, launched a petition calling for nan position to extremity nan research and published an unfastened missive protesting “the replacement of labor pinch artificial intelligence."

“It is simply a vulnerable precedent that hits america all,” he wrote, and based on it could unfastened nan measurement “to a world successful which knowledgeable labor associated pinch nan media assemblage for years and group employed successful imaginative industries will beryllium replaced by machines.”

More than 23,000 signed nan petition.

Last Tuesday nan position broadcast an “interview” conducted by an AI-generated presenter pinch a sound pretending to beryllium Wisława Szymborska, a Polish writer and victor of nan Nobel Prize successful Literature who died successful 2012.

Before canceling nan experiment, nan position had been readying an question and reply pinch Polish statesman Józef Piłsudski, who died successful 1935.