{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-24T07:32:01.141Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai-presenters","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2024","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":1},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2024-krakow-public-radio-channel-relaunched-with-ai-presenters-after-ending-freelance-hosts-contracts","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Dwa miesiące wcześniej likwidator Radia Kraków rozwiązał umowy ze współpracownikami, prowadzącymi audycje w Offie.'; 'pracę straciło ośmiu współpracowników'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The liquidator of Radio Kraków ended the contracts of the collaborators who hosted programmes on OFF Radio Kraków two months before the October 2024 relaunch; a former host says eight collaborators, himself included, lost their work.","causal_attribution":"OKO.press narrative and the former host's own count; the contracts themselves were not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ich głosy i twarze stworzono za pomocą programu sztucznej inteligencji'; 'Off Radio Kraków w nowej formule, opartej na wytworach sztucznej inteligencji, ruszyło oficjalnie 22 października.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The station’s programmes were presented by three AI characters, each of which had a specific personality, set of interests and even AI-generated images of how they look.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 22 October 2024 OFF Radio Kraków relaunched in a format based on AI output, with three presenters whose voices and faces were created with an AI program.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets describe the station's own announcement and broadcasts; they rest on the same origin, so the claim is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Shortly after its launch, OFF aired an imagined, AI-generated interview with Wisława Szymborska, a Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet who died in 2012.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Shortly after the relaunch the channel aired an imagined, AI-generated interview with the poet Wisława Szymborska, who died in 2012.","causal_attribution":"Notes from Poland's account of the broadcast; it says the programme was authorised by the poet's foundation."},{"id":"c4","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'Do godziny 15:30 we wtorek 22 października podpisało ją 8 tys. osób.'; 'Ale w momencie, kiedy przeczytałem o wykorzystaniu AI, nie mogłem tego tak zostawić'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'including from former staff at OFF, who said they had been fired to make way for the AI plans'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Former hosts say they lost their work to make way for the AI plans and started a petition against the experiment, which about 8,000 people had signed by the afternoon of 22 October 2024.","causal_attribution":"The former hosts' attribution of their lost work to the AI plan; the station denies it (c5). The same former host told OKO.press that the liquidator had cited cuts when ending the cooperation."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'informuję, że żaden pracownik Off Radia Kraków nie został zwolniony'; 'Przyczyną nie było wprowadzenie narzędzi sztucznej inteligencji'; 'zasięgi słuchalności Off Radia Kraków były bliskie zeru'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The liquidator said no employee of OFF Radio Kraków was dismissed, that the contracts with mainly external collaborators ended at the end of August 2024, that the reason was not the introduction of AI tools, and that the channel's audience reach was close to zero.","causal_attribution":"The liquidator's written statement to OKO.press, quoted directly."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'has decided to end the “experiment” after less than a week on the air following a backlash against the idea'; 'clearly communicating that we did not intend to replace people with machines'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After a backlash, Radio Kraków ended the AI channel on 28 October 2024, less than a week after launch, saying it had never intended to replace people with machines.","causal_attribution":"The station's statement as reported by Notes from Poland."}],"effects":[{"label":"freelance hosts lost their programmes and work when their contracts ended","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"former hosts say they were let go to make way for AI presenters, which the station denies","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://oko.press/off-radio-krakow-zamiast-dziennikarzy-ai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pl","translation_note":"Read in full in the original Polish (HTML body and stripped text). The passages are quoted in Polish; the English renderings in the record are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"oko-press-off-radio-oct-2024"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/10/28/polish-broadcaster-shuts-down-ai-run-radio-station-after-a-week-following-backlash/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English, the language of publication; no translation was needed.","independence_group":"notes-from-poland-off-radio-oct-2024"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["Whether the contracts were ended because of the AI plan; the station denies it and the former hosts attribute it.","The exact number of people who lost work: one former host counts eight.","Whether any former host was taken back after the AI channel ended."],"geography":{"basis":"Both sources state that the station is Radio Kraków's OFF channel in Kraków, Poland, where the contracts were ended and the channel relaunched. The hosts' own countries are not stated, and no court was involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["PL"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete consequential response to AI adoption in which the causal link is disputed: freelance hosts of a public radio channel lost their work, and two months later the channel relaunched with AI presenters. The former hosts' attribution and the station's denial are both recorded, from two independent news outlets.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-24"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The station relaunched the channel with presenters whose voices and faces were created with an AI program, two months after ending the hosts' contracts (OKO.press, Notes from Poland). The former hosts attribute their lost work to that AI plan; the liquidator says the contracts ended because of near-zero audience and not because of AI. The harm is a consequential response to the broadcaster's adoption of AI presenters; no AI output was directed at the hosts, so the relation is unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"disputed"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Kraków public radio channel relaunched with AI presenters after ending freelance hosts' contracts; former hosts say they were replaced, station denies","summary":"Radio Kraków, a regional public broadcaster in Poland, ended the cooperation contracts of the freelance collaborators who hosted programmes on its OFF Radio Kraków channel at the end of August 2024. On 22 October 2024 the channel relaunched in a format based on artificial intelligence, with three presenters whose voices and faces were made with an AI program, and soon aired an AI-generated \"interview\" with the poet Wisława Szymborska, who died in 2012. A former host told OKO.press that eight collaborators, himself included, lost their work; former hosts started a petition against the \"experiment\" and, according to Notes from Poland, said they had been let go to make way for the AI plans. The station's liquidator and editor-in-chief said no employee was dismissed, that the contracts with external collaborators ended for reasons other than AI, chiefly near-zero audience figures, and that the station never intended to replace people with machines. After a backlash the station ended the AI channel on 28 October 2024, less than a week after launch. Whether the contracts ended because of the AI plan is disputed.","incidentDate":"2024-08-01","incidentEndDate":"2024-10-28","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-10-22","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI program used by Radio Kraków to generate the voices and images of three presenters and an imagined interview with a dead poet for its relaunched OFF Radio Kraków channel","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice and image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Freelance hosts of OFF Radio Kraków lost their programmes when their contracts ended in August 2024; a former host counts eight people, and the former hosts say they were let go to make way for the AI presenters launched in October 2024, which the station denies.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":8,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"A former freelance host told OKO.press that eight collaborators, himself included, lost their work; OKO.press separately says the AI presenters would replace more than a dozen journalists and presenters, which is not counted. Whether the losses were caused by the AI plan is disputed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"PL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://oko.press/off-radio-krakow-zamiast-dziennikarzy-ai","primarySourceLabel":"OKO.press, 22 October 2024: Off Radio Kraków, an experiment on listeners. AI pushed people out of a public medium","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-24T03:10:09.777567+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T03:10:09.777567+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-presenters","public-broadcaster","freelance-journalists","job-loss-attributed-to-ai","disputed-causation","poland"]}]}