澳大利亚一家电台悄然使用AI生成的DJ主持节目“Workdays with Thy”，长达数月未被听众察觉。该节目播放嘻哈、R&B和流行音乐，并未透露主持人Thy是AI生成的。Thy的声音和形象模仿了公司财务部门的员工，由ElevenLabs的AI语音生成器创建。电台未公开使用AI主持人的事实，引发了关于透明度和真实性的讨论。澳大利亚语音演员协会副主席批评电台缺乏透明度，认为听众有权知道他们信任的是否为真人。其他电台也曾尝试使用AI，但引发了争议。

🤖 澳大利亚悉尼CADA电台的“Workdays with Thy”节目由AI生成的DJ主持，播放嘻哈、R&B和流行音乐，时长四小时。电台所有者ARN Media证实，Thy的声音和形象模仿了公司财务部门的员工，由ElevenLabs的AI语音生成器创建。

📢 CADA电台的网站和节目本身均未公开主持人为AI生成的事实。节目描述称，这些歌曲由音乐专家策划，听众可以“第一时间听到”，并向朋友炫耀。

🗣️ 澳大利亚语音演员协会副主席Teresa Lim批评ARN Media未公开使用AI主持人。她认为，澳大利亚听众应该得到诚实和透明的告知，而不是信任一个他们认为是真人的虚假人物。

📻 其他电台也曾尝试使用AI，包括美国波特兰一家电台和Sirius XM。去年，一家波兰电台解雇记者，并用AI主持人取代他们，但这项“实验”在遭到强烈反对后结束。

For months, a popular Australian radio station has used an AI-generated DJ to host one of its segments — and no one seemed to notice, as reported by the Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. The show, called Workdays with Thy, offers a four-hour mix of hip hop, R&B, and pop, with no indication that the voice of its host, Thy, is AI-generated.

Workdays with Thy is broadcast on the Sydney radio station CADA. 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, as first reported by the newsletter The Carpet.

Neither CADA’s website nor the show itself discloses that its host is AI-generated. “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 show’s description says.

This isn’t the only recent instance of AI-generated content seemingly going unnoticed. After debuting an AI-generated Microsoft Surface ad in January, the company only now revealed its use of AI.

As reported by the Financial Review, Workdays with Thy first appeared on CADA’s website in November 2024, and its ratings suggest it “reaches at least 72,000 people.” Teresa Lim, the vice president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors, slammed ARN Media’s failure to disclose the use of an AI host. “Australian listeners deserve honesty and upfront disclosure instead of a lack of transparency leading them to trust a fake person they think is a real on-air person,” Lim wrote on LinkedIn.

“We’re trying to understand what’s real and what’s not,” ARN CEO Ciaran Davis told the Financial Review. “What we’ve learned is the power of the announcers we have.”

Other radio stations have also experimented with using AI, including a Portland, Oregon radio station and Sirius XM. Last year, a Polish radio station laid off journalists only to replace them with AI hosts — an ”experiment” it later ended following backlash.