Radio Station's Attempt to Replace Hosts With AI Ends in Absolute Disaster

What were they thinking?Host of ProblemsA state-funded radio show in Poland was struggling to retain listeners. So it undertook a shrewd piece of business: fire all the show’s presenters, as The New York Times reports, and replace them with experimental AI hosts.The station, Off Radio Krakow, made the bold gamble in a bid to appeal to younger listeners with a trio of AI-generated “Gen Z” hosts. It sort of worked, in the short term. The mix of outrage, rubbernecking, and genuine curiosity saw the station’s “close to zero” listener count…

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