Channel 1 AI released a promotional video explaining how the service will provide personalized news coverage to users from finance to entertainment.

      • mPony
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        122 years ago

        it changes things if you’ve ever wanted to become a new anchor

      • @[email protected]
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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.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          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

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            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.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      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.

      • Ghostalmedia
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        132 years ago

        To be fair, it looks like this actually has human editors and isn’t just running as a hands free experiment.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          Nothing Forever got a 14 day ban for generating this standup routine:

          “There’s like 50 people here and no one is laughing. Anyone have any suggestions? I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness. Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone. Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society. But no one is laughing, so I’m going to stop. Thanks for coming out tonight. See you next time. Where’d everybody go?”

          As for Infinite Steam, the only references to the banned clip seem to be on Reddit - and so a massive pain in the ass to access - but I remember the clip in question had Seymour saying something like “Oh no, I burned the Jews!”

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          Tay was such a hilarious snafu. It is, in all likelihood, one of the most influential lessons on AI. Modern models hold no memory of previous conversations for a very good reason.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Sounds a bit like the recent exploit for saying a word forever. I wonder how long until these break down and start spewing their source code.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    Okay… so honest question: how long did it take for you to close the linked video?

    In my case it was about 45 seconds. The weird hands/body language creeped me out and when combined with the synthetic voices I just couldn’t take it.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Even AI have no clue what to do with their hands.

      I’m waiting for the youth version where the anchor is dropped into an endless runner game.

    • Shazbot
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      12 years ago

      I’m convinced the AI had the hand on a loop. It’s like watching someone’s first presentation in speech and debate class. It will look better eventually, but I doubt it’ll figure out the subtle emphasis great body language adds to speech.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      The voice didn’t sync up to the lips and hand gestures when I watched it. That was enough for me.

    • konalt
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      12 years ago

      I watched about 10 minutes before I got bored

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      I saw it all, albeit without audio. It honestly didn’t look that bad to me. They seemed a bit stiff and something was off with the hand gestures, other than that it was visually passable to me.

      I wonder how they did it though, and how procedural it can get.

  • @[email protected]
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    372 years ago

    Couldn’t be any worse than the current model for televised news, which is 2-4 buzzword parrots all attempting to shout over each other without ever attempting to address what the others are saying.

    Being human doesn’t make it good.

    Wake me up when there’s a better medium than just plain text.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Yeah, the news already has standard looks and standard cadence while reading scripts. A computer made anchor won’t go off script, always speaks the same and doesn’t decide to change the hairstyle.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        It’s why the Onion can make such great fake news coverage, or movies use news coverage as an introduction to world building. It’s very reproducable…

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    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

  • donuts
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    402 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    Yeah, In gonna need names of everyone who contributed a dollar to that before I use it as a news source.

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    If they make one of them look and speak like Morbo the Annihilator, I might actually watch.

    Like, with the anti-human sentiment and everything.

    First Anchor: And today, a local law firm files the first lawsuit in a series over a deadly salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupe.

    Morbo: Next time, we will put the salmonella in more than just the canteloupe.

    or maybe:

    Morbo: Canteloupe tonight, Bridegroom has the runs!

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    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.

  • Pandantic [they/them]
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    92 years ago

    Their hand moments took me out instantly. Just the same opening and closing of hands with some variation thrown it made it feel weird.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      The voices had a weird pacing, too. They sounded very close to real but just not quite, in an uncanny-valley sort of way.

  • @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    This felt a lot like Naked News but y’know I’d rather look at titties while being given a bland delivery and near robotic gestures.

    But AI, so I’m sure naked AI news anchors are right around the corner.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        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.

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      22 years ago

      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.

      • Ech
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        22 years ago

        Might even be able to adjust the “facts” they say, given a malicious enough company.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          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!

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    122 years ago

    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.

    • Ech
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      32 years ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I mean I think part of this is that the technology is reaching a point where emotion is actually reasonably emulatable.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Hopefully we may be able to get some, at least intellectualized, empathy in models in the future. https://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.