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 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.
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.
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.
Max Headroom becomes reality.
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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I’ve never heard of channel 1 in the usa, so VERY HEAVILY assume this is fake
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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Fucking hell we’re at the point of having Eliza Cassan from Deus Ex Human Revolution be reality aren’t we
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.
