Radio station faces backlash after listeners duped by AI host for 6 months
Global News
It turns out that the voice of a popular local radio show wasn't actually human.
An Australian radio station is facing backlash from listeners after it revealed that an artificial intelligence-generated host had been hosting a show for six months.
The virtual host named Thy was created by ElevenLabs, which is a voice-cloning AI software used by Australian Radio Network (ARN) station CADA.
The Sydney-based radio station had Thy hosting a show called Workdays with Thy that aired four hours a day from Monday to Friday, where she would play music and introduce songs.
The show’s website promoted the show, writing, “Curated by our music experts, these are the songs that are charting or on the cusp of blowing up — hear it first with Thy so you can boast to your friends and say you were all over it first.”
The station didn’t let its listeners know that Thy was not a real person. Its secret was revealed after Sydney-based writer Stephanie Coombes started asking about Thy’s identity in a blog post.
Coombes asked, “What’s Thy’s last name? Who is she? Where did she come from?”
“There is no biography, or further information about the woman who is supposedly presenting this show,” Coombes added.
This led to the radio station’s owner, ARN Media, confirming to the Australian Financial Review that while Thy is AI-generated, her voice and likeness are modelled after an actual employee in the company’s financial department.
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