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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 (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

These would be 20-year-old Emilia Nowa, "a journalism student [and] pop culture expert," who is "passionately following the latest trends in the world of cinema, music and fashion"; 22-year-old Jakub Zieliński, who's studying Acoustic Engineering at AGH (a Kraków university); and rounding out the three was 23-year-old Alex, a former psychology student who is "socially engaged, passionately discussing topics related to identity [and] queer culture."

Do people even ‘bond’ with characters who are totally fake? How can you be into their life and story and everything, when none of it is real? It’s different when you’re watching a cartoon or something. It’s objectively not trying to pretend to be human. This above feels gross.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Have you ever seen a movie or read a book?

It's not the bonding part with fake characters that makes this weird. It's pretending they are in any sense real.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Especially the last one, trying to recreate the identity of someone from a marginalised social group as an AI for the purpose of talking about its experience as if it is a real person is super gross.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Right?? What struggle did they face to come to terms with their sexuality or gender identity? It’s completely hollow.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lister: "Rimmer, death isn't the handicap it used to be in the olden days. It doesn't screw your career up like it used to."

Rimmer: "That's what they say, Lister, but if you had two people coming for a job and one of them was dead, which one would you pick?"

Lister "It depends which is better qualified."

Rimmer "Bullpats. When was the last time you saw a dead newsreader?"

Lister "Channel 27 had a hologram reading the news."

Rimmer "Oh. Groovy, funky Channel 27. Big smegging deal. You livies hate us deadies."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh. Groovy, funky Channel 27.

Quotes you can hear.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I thought this was the onion till I read the comments…

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... what

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, so have a dead lady talk to no one, without asking her relatives if they mind hearing Great-Auntie promoting Instagram, while they're doing the school drop off. They will not mind, they love OFF. Real estate agents are contacting this family like mad, as they are about to acquire a chain of radio stations.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Jesus Christ, what the hell are we doing...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Living out the last excesses of a broken system before it all falls apart

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently we are trying to put mediums and psychics out of work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

move along then

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The radio station manager seems solely responsible, he needs Jesus Christ in his life. Perhaps a kick in the piroshkis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a note, as this story is about a Polish radio station the word you'd want to use is "pierogi" or "pierożki", no "s" at the end either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I intended to use the English plural of the Anglicized word for potato dumplings. The potato dumplings I mentioned are a metaphor for testicles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I got the testicle part :P it's just that "piroshkis" doesn't sound Polish at all, and since we're talking about Poland... Even "pierogis", with its unnecessary "s" would be better.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

So this a terrible use case and clearly fake interviewing dead people is plain silly.

That being said, I do have quite a drive to do everyday and I end up listening to the radio whenever I get bored of audio books. I would absolutely love a system that would mix up my favorite songs with AI hosts talking about recent news and subjects I specifically care about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's not specifically what you are requesting, but your comment reminds me how much I enjoy Fallout Radio. Great songs interspersed with fictional hosts discussing all manner of things. It's just so nice to haveusic broken up with a little bit of banter.

One of the greatest examples of the work and detail that went into the recent Fallout London mod are the custom radio stations with their fun hosts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Spotify has a playlist called Daily Drive that does exactly that. It creates a playlist of music you like then between songs will play news snippets from the day. It's pretty cool about half the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

EMBRACE THE FUTURE GRANDAD

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Fake" interviews with dead people is surprisingly a common thing in journalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

"Tabloids" was the word you were looking for.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Genuine question, why not try different podcasts? There are a variety of subjects, and plenty that are current events/news related for niche communities. That doesn't mix music between episodes, but let's you find discussions on topics you're interested in.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm mostly looking for something that will comb news sites and tech blogs an hour before I get up and make me curated daily commentary.

I like podcasts but if I'm switching off audio books, it's mostly because I'm having trouble concentrating. Music with a news tidbit every 15 minutes isn't as taxing, specially on the drive back, but makes it a lot more interesting then just music alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ah, fair! For me, the switching between music and oration would be a bigger distraction than one or the other on their own.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I primarily listen to podcasts when I'm driving, which isn't much as I work from home. Once I hit my "I need music" I am reminded how extremely happy I have been with SiriusXM for two decades. Octane, for example, is all music with occasional DJ chatting about something music related.

If I load up the app, they have "only music" stations which is just a straight up list of song after song after song.

Not an ad.. I genuinely love Sirius Octane! I have found so many new artists I would have never heard on FM radio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Briefly acquainted with Sirius a ways back, the talk radio was the best part. I liked the one hosted by Nancy Sinatra, her insights into her own life and her dad's legacy were fascinating. There would be a decent block of his music, then a bit of commentary. Her voice is actually soothing, but not so much that you get sleepy at all. Craig Ferguson did a show on Sirius a while back, high quality rambling and light on the interview topics.