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Cronkite delivered the news but with a human touch.
Now,Channel1.aiwants me to divorce news from its humanity and accept daily reports from human-like AI.
Say hello to your AI anchors(Image credit: Channel1 AI)
That’s gonna be a hard no.
Look, I can see the appeal of what Channel1.AI is trying to do in early 2024.
See the highest quality AI footage in the world.
Not a real person(Image credit: Channel1 AI)
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I shouldn’t call them “characters.”
The ones I saw in Channel1’s demo reel look astonishingly human and promise to deliver fact-based news reports.
I watched the video a few times to look for tell-tale signs of their inhumanity.
Nope, not real, either(Image credit: Channel1 AI)
There aren’t many.
Their voices are probably the worst part.
They sound robotic and sometimes the words don’t sync up with the AI human video.
Still not real.(Image credit: Channel1 AI)
The effect can be jarring.
I don’t have any qualms with the news Channel1 is promising to deliver.
It kept repeating the word “facts” and promised to follow “journalistic principles.”
It would be clearly labeled, but still.
What is AI imagery doing in any newscast?
A newscast shows you what is supposed to be the news, not an artist’s rendering of it.
AI-generated art has a habit of inventing things.
Some people don’t believe Channel 1 is real.
Leaving all that aside, let’s talk about Channel 1’s total lack of humanity.
But the best of them have never been that way.
NotDan Rather, who followed him.
The anchors onThe Today Showare not emotionless robots.
just, leave AI to do the things humans don’t want to do, or need to do.
Channel 1’s plan, instead, is to fake it.
I can’t imagine anything more horrifying or worse for the news-watching public.
Walter Cronkite must be rolling in his grave.
