Hey magic computer generators finally allow video of anything you can imagine for like one second at a time. Whaddya wanna do with it? Oh I know, let’s replace the thing where any human being can stand in a sparse room and read off a teleprompter. You know. The boring part.
This is wild. I almost wonder if it’s actually a real thing or an elaborate hoax. It’s impressive in either case.
As far as the concept of AI news, there are obvious drawbacks but also some advantages. In particular, the anchors are less animated and emotional, which eliminates quite a bit of bias. Cable news anchors with their incredulity, snide remarks, and expressions have done a lot to help ruin the news. That alone can easily undermine a story or a guest in a way that causes the audience to pick a side.
The idea of using AI to scour public records and create stories is another really cool idea. There’s so much out there and not enough reporters with the time or inclination to investigate everything.
I’m not too keen on the AI generated imagery, although traditional news outlets essentially do the same thing. It’s a dangerous thing to be presented with artificial pictures and videos in a news format. Before long, you can’t distinguish between reality and artificial, which is more or less the same problem a significant portion of the country has had since the 2016 election. In that case, they were mostly fed stupid memes and fabricated stories on social media. This is a completely different level. In the wrong hands, this is a weapon of mass destruction.
The deepest of ironies in a company allegedly made to report “facts”, primarily using artificiality to do so.
Even if they are completely earnest and honest, the tech they are helping spearhead is going to completely change how information is approached and will be one of the biggest challenges, if not the biggest challenge, we are going to face as a society in a long time. This is really unnerving to watch develop in front of my eyes.
I feel like they’re shooting themselves in the foot with this. If AI reporting gets to a good enough point, people can just have an AI on their phone tell them the news report, rather than a video of an AI giving the report, broadcast from a central server. They will lose their viewers
The use of unrelated b-roll and stock footage is already a nightmare in this way. One burning trash can becomes the new standard-bearer for any protest they disagree with for the next year or two. Now they can fine tune it to location …
Honestly, for the news, these sorts of tricks for effect NEED to be clearly and constantly marked during their use. It is actually dangerous the way they currently do it, imho.
I’m biased enough towards transparency, though I think if they do use AI then they should have to reveal the prompt and model used to make it on top of clearly and constant marking showing it is not actual footage.
More and more, the human element is being removed from the news. The most horrific events will be reported by blank-faced robots with no empathy to human emotions, at least in AI channels. Imagine what kind of emotional intelligence future people will have when they constantly hear stories from poker-faced (and voiced) human-like images.
Hopefully we may be able to get some, at least intellectualized, empathy in models in the future. laion.ai/blog/open-empathic/
I fear that for this kind of work, because of the stakeholders, the goal will be passable acting and not a genuine regard for people’s emotional well-being.
I’m not sure what idea I hate more: Blank faced puppet cg reporters reciting horrible events, or cg puppets acting sad about their reports. Both are just…not fun.
An you’ll be able to adjust everything…voice, boob size, feminity or masculinity and muscularity.
Maybe you can make them look exactly like your highschool sweetheart or the lady at the bus stop that you always wanted to talk to. Or for the gay guys and women you can make the guy look like James Bond and he’ll even talk to you personally by first name… Hello there Jonathan, tonight I gotta tell you about this tragic accident at the tallest senior citizen Bolivian rollercoaster… everyone stood up on a turn. Oh, it was horrible as they all fell 23 stories onto the rocky mountain side right through that fresh La Paz air.
Probably you can set it to Alarming, cutesy, nature news, local mom news, Republican filter, dioses Christian rock band related news. Possibly highschool style news mostly about the hottie you used to like? With proper ads…always Cocaine Cola!..hey Stacey, sho loves it an so should you!
Ha! I remember that. I watched it once or twice for the novelty of it. I seem to recall that it was very bland except for the naked women. According to Wikipedia, they are still around and I think that may be more shocking than this AI news.
As far as news quality goes I think it was actually a good program but the whole “local news” format makes it feel dated and using a green screen 90% of the time makes it feel cheap.
I watched the whole thing. I think most anchors talked a bit too slow which seemed fake. Those hand gestures were weird especially for (I don’t know his name) the black anchor. Very rigid fingers.
The main cringe section was the movie section where they tried to have the black anchor act sassy but that’s hard with a very level speaking tone and speed.
Honestly, I’d watch something like that once a week.it was nice to get a broad cross section of news.
Makes complete sense. I feel zero loyalty or trust towards what anchors are reading from a prompt. Save money and show me random ai generated ones. Better yet let me choose. I’ll pick new ones each
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