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An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months

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18 points thm | 2 comments | 26 Apr 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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vunderba ◴[26 Apr 25 19:34 UTC] No.43806436[source]▶
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

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1. Gee101 ◴[26 Apr 25 21:40 UTC] No.43807447[source]▶
Would it not cost more if they had to get humans to write out all the content instead of just having a human DJ?
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2. staticautomatic ◴[26 Apr 25 22:17 UTC] No.43807711[source]▶
Writers are cheaper than hosts and typically both are union members.