LA-based Channel 1 will be debuting these digital humans – a mix of digitally created avatars and "digital doubles" created by the channel – by next year, the Daily Mail reported. These digital news anchors will be reporting news updates on global events. They will also be featured in free streaming TV platforms.
Adam Mosam, Channel 1's founder, said news reports will come from trusted official sources like public records and government documents in partnership with undisclosed legacy news outlets, commissioned freelance journalists and AI-generated news reports. The digital news anchors will then report the news on air.
Mosam added that Channel 1 seeks to provide viewers with a personalized news experience similar to the popular social media app TikTok. The app is designed to adapt to user preferences over time, learning their habits and interests – whether it's financial news, sports or other topics. Channel 1 will also use digital double anchors to replace the voice and mouth movements of people in news stories with an English translation. This, in turn, will transform local news stories into an accessible format for international audiences. (Related: Technology news website describes Microsoft’s AI chatbot as an emotionally manipulative liar.)
"If we can generate 500 stories and choose the right nine or 10 for you, then we're going to do a better job of informing you and showing you what you're looking for in your allotted time," Mosam said.
AI-generated news anchors give new meaning to FAKE NEWS
Media professionals and critics expressed fear over the development, voicing out potential consequences that could befall the dying news industry.
"If you believe in the concept of 'fake news,' you have seen nothing. At least your news is presented by humans," said Kristen Ruby, CEO of the public relations firm Ruby Media Group. "When AI news anchors replace human news anchors, the concept of fake news will have a totally different meaning."
BC Today reporter Alec Lazenby denounced the "utterly terrifying" idea of having AI news anchors. "While the development of an entirely AI-powered broadcast is beyond impressive, it could have huge ramifications for an already depleted news industry and accelerate the loss of high-quality reporters and anchors," he posted on X.
Meanwhile, technology and social media commentator Lance Ulanoff said: "AI news anchors are exactly what you don't need in your fact-based, news-starved life."
Despite Mosam assuring that Channel 1 won't exploit AI-generated news anchors, the marks of previous AI experiments in journalism still remain. Doubts persist among the public, with fears of a dystopian future where fake news proliferates through AI-generated content. If not generating news anchors, media outlets are toying with the idea of using AI to write news articles.
For instance, media giant Gannett began its AI experiment in August, tapping the LedeAI service to automatically generate local high school sports stories across its portfolio of publications. However, the company decided to terminate its experiment after a series of article errors.
Sports Illustrated, once considered the gold standard in sport print journalism, also dabbled with AI. The magazine has resorted to churning out AI-generated articles and tacking on fake writer names and bios at the end, complete with phony AI-generated headshots designed to trick readers into believing that a professional wrote them.
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over 1 year ago
Are they all black? If not, they will be labeled racist.
over 1 year ago
AI reminds me of the computer HAL in the 1968 scifi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Many years ago MAD Magazine did a satire of 2001: A Space Odyssey. After the spaceship arrives at Jupiter, the astronauts catch sight of a huge, orbiting, rectangular, black monolith, which is a stargate leading to another realm of the universe. "Look! A huge, orbiting, rectangular, black monolith, like the other smaller, ground-based, rectangular, black monoliths leading up to this! Either that, or it's the box the United Nations building came in."
2001: A Space Odyssey chronicles supposed human evolution from a common ancestor to a future godlike status. But the real hidden goal behind evolutionist mythology is to provide a background for accepting the Seed of the Serpent, the coming Antichrist. The False Prophet will lead the world in worshiping the Antichrist through "the Image of the Beast," which may be some form of AI, or AGI ("Artificial General Intelligence").
The Antichrist will be seen as the next step in human evolution. This has been in the works for some time, such as in Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch ("Overman," or "Superman"), and early science-fiction writer Olaf Stapledon's Odd John.
The Superman was represented as the coming of the "Star Child" at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was no coincidence that the opening theme-music fanfare for the film was taken from the 1896 orchestral tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, by German composer Rikhard Strauss.
Strauss' tone poem was inspired by Nietzsche's 1883-85 novel Thus Spake Zarathustra. Wikipedia says, "Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself. The Übermensch represents a shift from otherworldly Christian values and manifests the grounded human ideal."
However, the REAL next step for Man was when Jesus Christ rose from among the dead to everlasting life. He is Resurrected Man. Jesus Everlasting is His name. Jesus died on the cross to take away our sins, and rose from among the dead to give us the free gift of His eternal life, which is spiritual immortality that can never be lost, forfeited, or given back, together with a promise of future physical resurrection. And in the New Testament, in John 6:47 Jesus promised, "Very truly! I say to you, the person who believes in Me (wno relies with certainty on Me) HAS (right now) nonforfeitable, EVER-lasting, unending life."
over 1 year ago
LOL! MAX Headroom on NewsMAX!