Radio Kraków fires announcers, replaces them with AI bot voices
Radio Kraków in Poland fired a dozen journalists from its Off channel in August. On Monday October 21, editor in chief Marcin Pulit proudly announced Off’s new format — all the voices would be thre…
Fuck you radio Krakow and fuck you everyone who replaces peoples jobs with AI. Rant over
A seemingly small detail that really bothers me about this story is that those glorified chatbots were given backstories like they are actual humans - in their bios they have things like "an acoustics engineering student at AGH [local university]" or "passionate about queer issues". And... can a chatbot have a student id? I somehow doubt that AGH has ever issued an id for a bot. Can a chatbot be "passionate" about real issues that real queer people face (especially in a country like Poland which, while it's been getting better on LGBT+ rights, is still one of the worse places in the EU to be queer) and should it pretend like it has faced these things too? That seems like a horrible idea.
now, you might think this is all utterly contemptuous