Dead Poet Talking: Polish radio experiment bares pitfalls of AI


Demski, a presenter who lost his job, in Krakow, Poland. A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in AI-generated presenters. An outcry over a chat with a purported Nobel laureate quickly ended that experiment. — The New York Times

KRAKOW, Poland: When a state-funded Polish radio station cancelled a weekly show featuring interviews with theater directors and writers, the host of the programme went quietly, resigned to media industry realities of cost-cutting and shifting tastes away from highbrow culture.

But his resignation turned to fury in late October after his former employer, Off Radio Krakow, aired what it billed as a “unique interview” with an icon of Polish culture, Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature.

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