The radio station faces a backlash after the listeners dupped by the host of the AI for 6 months – National
An Australian radio station is faced with listeners’ scale after revealing that a host generated by artificial intelligence has been organizing a show for six months.
The virtual host named Thy was created by Elevenlabs, which is Vocal Cloning IA software used by the CADA station of Australian Radio Network (ARN).
The Sydney -based radio station has had your accommodation of a program entitled Working days with thy This was broadcast four hours a day from Monday to Friday, where she would play music and presented songs.
The show of the show promoted the show, Writing, “organized by our music experts, are the songs that are mapping or about to explode – listen to it first so that you can boast your friends and say that you were everywhere.”
The station did not let its listeners know that it was not a real person. His secret was revealed after the writer based in Sydney, Stephanie Coombs, began to ask questions about the identity of your article in a blog article.
Coombs asked: “What is the family name of your? Who is it? Where does it come from?”
“There is no biography or additional information on the woman who presents this show,” added Coombs.
This led to the owner of the radio station, RNA Media, confirming to the Australian financial journal that, although tone is generated by AI, its voice and its resemblance are modeled after a real employee of the financial department of the company.
“We have tested AI audio tools on Cada, using Thy’s voice, a member of the RNA team,” a spokesperson for RNA said in a statement. “This is a space explored by the broadcasters around the world, and the trial has offered valuable information.”
The spokesman also said that the trial highlighted “the power of real personalities in conducting convincing content”.
Teresa Lim, Vice-President of the Australian Voice Association, called the fact of not disclosing its use of AI in a LinkedIn post.
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“AI can be such a powerful and positive tool in the diffusion if there are correct guarantees in place,” she wrote. “Authenticity and truth are so important for the radio media. The public deserves to know what is the source of what is broadcast.
LIM also referred as a Asian woman working in the Australian media and how it can be difficult for her demographic group to enter the broadcasting industry.
“As an actor and presenter of the Asian-Australian human voice in the radio and advertising industry, I find that this moving from the industry is first offensive at different levels,” wrote Lim.
“When we discovered that it was only a cardboard cutting, it cemented the disappointment. There are a limited number of Asian-Australian presenters who are available for work, so give it to one of them. Do not withdraw this opportunity from a minority group that already has difficulties,” she added.
LIM suggested that the way to work with AI in radio broadcasting is to create “explicit laws of AI labeling to claim this level of deception”.
“We need transparency in the use and creation of AI equipment. The Australian public deserves to be able to trust what we hear on the air,” she added.
Many listeners went to social networks to discuss the importance of disclosing this information after being revealed that your personality of AI was.
The AI has been criticized more and more criticism in recent months, especially after the artists have been forced to warn fans of “false” songs broadcast online who use AI to imitate their voices.
More recently, the representatives of Celine Dion have published a statement on his Instagram saying that the songs claiming to be a reproduced version of Dion are “not approved and are not songs from his official discography”.
They said the recordings appeared on various digital platforms.
Although the Dion camp has not referred the songs by name, several false recordings arose on YouTube credited as a model of AI of the singer’s voice.
One is a coverage of the song Gospel Heal me Lordwhich has accumulated more than a million views, while the versions of a false Dion were used for several duos, including one I will Always Love You With Whitney Houston and Appointment With Charlie Puth.
– With Canadian press files
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