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PC Gamer
PC Gamer
Joshua Wolens

Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it

KRAKOW, POLAND - 1997: Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and laureate of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, at her home in Krakow, Poland, in 1997.

Ask yourself this: What could be dodgier than a radio station giving its human hosts the boot and replacing them with a cohort of three alarmingly photogenic Gen-Z AIs? If you answered 'having those three zoomer AIs interview another AI, this one imitating a Nobel prize-winning writer who died 12 years ago,' then congratulations, you may have a future ahead of you at Polish station Radio Kraków, which is in hot water for doing just that (via Onet.pl).

On Monday, Radio Kraków announced that it was overhauling its OFF station. Since 2015, the station had broadcast (all following quotes are machine-translated) "a playlist as well as original music programmes and a two-hour morning programme, in which the most time was devoted to cultural and social events in Kraków with the participation of Kraków artists and people associated with the Kraków club scene."

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