According to the Associated Press.PolishA company called OFF.transmitter-receiverfired all of its journalists, and then went back online this week with the launch of a new program by the AI Generated"moderator”.
The radio station called the relaunch "an experiment carried out for the first time in Poland," and the radio hosts were led by AI-created avatarsServing.
The radio station, based in the southern Polish city of Krakow, said the three new virtual hosts would discussCulture, art and societytopics to attract a younger audience. In a statement, radio chief Marcin Plett wrote: "Is AI an opportunity or a threat to media, radio and journalism? We will try to find out."
Former local radio host and movie critic Mateusz Dembski had previously published an open letter protesting the "replacement of employees with artificial intelligence." "This is a dangerous precedent that concerns us all." He also warned that it could lead to a future workplace where theSenior media professionals and creative industry practitioners replaced by machines.
Dembski told The Associated Press that as of Wednesday morning, there had beenThere are more than 15,000 peoplesigned a petition against the decision. He also said that a large number of complaint calls were received from young people who said they did not want to see themselves targeted for such experiments.
Dembski, who began working at OFF Radio in February 2022, was fired along with about a dozen journalists in August of this year. However, the station's director, Plett, insisted that the dismissal of the journalistsNot because of AIIt was because the radio station's listenership was "virtually zero".
Poland's Minister of Digital Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on Tuesday that he had seen Dembski's call for regulations to govern the use of AI as soon as possible. "While I support the development of AI technology, I think we have increasingly crossed some boundaries. the widespread use of AIShould serve mankind, rather than a threat to humanity."