Radiant AI: Illuminating the Automation of 250 US Radio Stations with RadioGPT
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Radio just might be the next area to be completely disrupted from ChatGPT and a lot of these AI technologies. So recently, there is a new product or project come out called radio GPT, which essentially makes IT, I would say, pretty easy to replace human dies with bots. And essentially what this new um you know radio GPT can do is that I can do most of the work required to manually run a rail station.

And IT does all without human labor. So according to their website, IT uses GPT four power bots that can pretty much perform um different charts. IT can work with them on the music line of the local radio, the news and IT can even field listener's comments and questions, which is pretty interesting. Radio GPT can also do a lot of the tasks that would others.

T why is just essentially be like in the domain of like interns or kind of the entry level staffers? So IT can do things like creating complementary blog posts or converting live shows into podcast and social media, right? And IT really is automating a lot of the tasks that are done at a reos tion. So unlike other projects like A I radio, which um I think the verge reported on last month as which is just kind of more like a fund that experiment, this is actually a legitimate product and apparently it's gonna be next month with alph a media and Rogers sports in media which represents about two hundred and fifty radio stations in the U S. In canada.

So this is gonna be actually widely ruled out the CEO his name is Daniel and standing and he told axiom that the product isn't really meant to I guess we will the way their position in IT is that it's going to save the radio, not compete with that and that it's going to be you filling the hours that radio stations can't man anyways or right? So you think like the super late nights and all that kind of stuff where they don't have people, um he says what we're looking to do is augment a station's ability to fill its programing with more alive and the local content um and the way that he kind of positions that is that pretty much any radio station can use A I to do all this extra soft they were unable to do before. And you know that might be true in some cases, but also h the companies that have signed up for this aren't exactly like these little india dio stations.

So I M actually think think it's gonna be more likely that radio companies are going to have this opportunity to use this um as a way to cut their labor forces and essentially make radio programs, radio stations a lot cheaper. And you know a lot of people think that that's uh obviously company says things that controversial and dos and says that's not the goal, right? They're gona do this um the other thing. But you know, in my opinion, why would a radio station that implement something like this and see IT automate all of these different radio programs and all of the stuff?

Why would they continue to pay hosts at all hours of the day to run, live and do other stuff, and inevitably, you know, this probably going to be still live people running these radio stations because I wanted to just seem like a completely bought run thing however, um if you really have all of the more monday e small tasks automated with judge B T like a eyes um it's very easy in my opinion I would be very easy to have maybe one person run an entire radio station where maybe they just do um you know add spots or they talk um between things or they announced the new program and the whole thing can be kind of automated to run by A I but they have some sane hey, thanks for join us today top of the hour like someone can go just record a spill and um you know there's a one company that's gonna yond. Two hundred and fifty different radio stations are there integrating with two hundred fifty radio stations. So I don't see why they couldn't have five, six, seven, eight, maybe ten people, man, all two hundred and fifty, those radio stations once to get A I to automate most tasks.

So that will be interesting to see what happens in the industry. Um and you know this is something that obviously has already been to window in recent years when you have technology like spotify that does automatic player recommendations and you have everything that apple music is doing. Personally, I don't really level with into radio a lot because it's just a way that after listen to ads.

So I would obviously prefer this listing to my own pre build or a spotify. I created a playlists when i'm going driving, i'll just stay on the blue tute on my car, whatever. Um so it's going be interesting to see how relevant radios stay.

It's obviously a sector that has been shrinking or struggling, and perhaps this automation might be the final nail in the coffin for the industry. Um or maybe it's just a way for a lot of these companies to continue to stay relevant and maybe more radio stations will pop up because now it's cheaper to run them. It'll be interesting to follow and see what happens in the radio space in the future.