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
Just saying I think I could have seen that coming.
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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.
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."
Oh. Groovy, funky Channel 27.
Quotes you can hear.
I thought this was the onion till I read the comments…
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
"Fake" interviews with dead people is surprisingly a common thing in journalism.
"Tabloids" was the word you were looking for.
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.
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.
Right?? What struggle did they face to come to terms with their sexuality or gender identity? It’s completely hollow.
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.
