By David Browne
Publication Date: 2025-11-14 14:30:00
With her nose ring, streaks of blue hair and tattoos stretching from her shoulders to her fingertips, DJ Tori is, in the words of her boss, “every man’s fantasy of what a rock chick would look like.” In that regard, she’s a natural fit to perform songs by Pearl Jam, Shinedown, or Stabbing Westward during her night and weekend shifts at a hard rock radio station in Hiawatha, Iowa.
Every now and then Tori mispronounces the name of the vintage alt-rock band Live – so that it rhymes with “give” – or speaks of an artist pairing and says “featuring” instead of “featuring”. But her listeners and her station KFMW Rock 108 are just going along with it because DJ Tori probably won’t be fired anytime soon. From her image to her voice, she is a pure AI creation.
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