Channel 1 AI released a promotional video explaining how the service will provide personalized news coverage to users from finance to entertainment.
“they intend to re-create events not captured by camera using generative AI,”
That’s going to cause all sorts of problems.
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.
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
This tech is going to completely derail communication and discussion in modern society and all people here are talking about is how weird they look or how it’s “the same” as news already. That’s…not great.
It’s a good way to filter out the wheat from the chaff. Find people you like who accept that this is a bad thing, band together and break away from the burning shitpile society’s becoming. Build something new.
Hello, I’m Eliza Cassan, and this is a Channel 1 breaking news announcement.
A crackpot video game nerd caused a viral sensation when he livestreamed himself blocking traffic in Times Square, shouting loudly that reality is actually just following the script of some video game from the 1990’s, before consuming 10 vials of Zyme, assaulting a pigeon, and then dying of a heart attack.
Onlookers reactions were varied, but most continued on perfectly linear paths, walking by the incident without seeming to notice it.
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This won’t hilariously backfire at all…
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The example where an interview of a victim of Hurricane Ciaran, originally in French, was deepfaked to be speaking English, was pretty scary. Some people will think that it’s just for convenience, but for me, it’s a step too far down the slippery slope. If they were to do the same for a politician, a slight nuance in how a phrase was translated could change everything.
Yeah for any sort of interviews I’d rather they kept the current convention of using a voice over, often after a 1-2 second clip of the original audio. It’s obvious that it’s a translation done by the media and not the exact original words of the source
a leaky abstraction is better because it reveals what is actually happening. That is better to me too. Heck I worry about the voice-overs giving an unfair or inaccurate version of what is being said.
it changes things if you’ve ever wanted to become a new anchor
Also changes things if you wanted to become a news anchor programmer
Tel-AI-prompter?
I wonder if they’ve learned anything from the infamous Nothing Forever incident, or the infamous Infinite Steam incident, or any of the other various incidents.
I’ve never heard of channel 1 in the usa, so VERY HEAVILY assume this is fake
Is AI writing click bait stories about AI?
or fake news
Wonderful. Nothing will help people differentiate between real, trustworthy news and fake opinion-laden disinformation like AI generated people and content!
/s for the kids in the back.
pour one out for the kids in the back.
bravisimo !!! why paying to have real humans to say the news, when AI can do it for you? right ? it does not sound dystopian at all, just AI, that will tell you what ever they want it to tell you!(not that now this in’t happening.)\
Edit: I didn’t mention legislation’s, like they don’t exist, jobs like this one will be lost, and no one will do something because some politicians will benefit from that. And maybe this is the beginning, wait till they start with other jobs(starting if not started).
Oh hey we’re just entering a period where it’s becoming harder and harder to tell what is legitimate information and what is AI generated propaganda? Why not demolish our credibility by joining the AI propaganda crowd!
I mean it’s not like anyone is taking courses in ethics in journalism anymore anyway, it’s just the “real world” version of Facebook outrage as “news” now anyway…
Man I miss being 12 and looking forward to what the future had in store. I used to say I want to be immortal just so I could see what awesome things we made in the future, now all I want is to never reach the future we’re barreling towards…
We just have to have a personalized AI to read the news for you and give you a condensed “important bits you would find” version. Which you ignore because you’re not that into the news that comes out lately. Cue dead internet theory again for the #789 time.
I wonder if they’ll cry “the AI did it!” when the chat bot hallucinates up some random misinformation.
Fucking hell we’re at the point of having Eliza Cassan from Deus Ex Human Revolution be reality aren’t we
Brings a new meaning to POV that “The real Journalists are doing print”
So people are just going to be blatantly lied to and exposed to completely made up deepfakes, and no one cares.
Yeah, that tracks.
Max Headroom becomes reality.
Their hand moments took me out instantly. Just the same opening and closing of hands with some variation thrown it made it feel weird.
The voices had a weird pacing, too. They sounded very close to real but just not quite, in an uncanny-valley sort of way.
Me waiting for the news channels and free lance writers to start asking them for money for all of this. Also fact checking is already non-existent in news is going to get so much worse. Can’t wait for this to start up their own tik tok account.
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