Given how inane pretty much everything on commercial radio is, I'm not surprised nobody noticed.
kunzhi · 1d ago
I think it's more that it's Australia. I visited once and literally all that was on the radio was Rugby League and Vegemite.
vunderba · 1d ago
From the article:
> Its owner, ARN Media, confirmed to the Financial Review that while Thy is AI-generated, the host’s voice and likeness are modeled after an actual employee in the company’s financial department. Thy’s voice was created with the AI voice generator ElevenLabs.
I get that it's a cloned voice, but it's a little unclear if the actual spoken content itself was:
- LLM generated
- Written by humans
- A mixture of both
Gee101 · 1d ago
Would it not cost more if they had to get humans to write out all the content instead of just having a human DJ?
staticautomatic · 1d ago
Writers are cheaper than hosts and typically both are union members.
dostick · 7h ago
Also government
rurban · 1d ago
Now if they had had call-ins it would have passed the Turing test. Still impressive feat
> Its owner, ARN Media, confirmed to the Financial Review that while Thy is AI-generated, the host’s voice and likeness are modeled after an actual employee in the company’s financial department. Thy’s voice was created with the AI voice generator ElevenLabs.
I get that it's a cloned voice, but it's a little unclear if the actual spoken content itself was:
- LLM generated
- Written by humans
- A mixture of both