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

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

    • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      don’t worry they’ve stated that they’ll clearly mark it with an arbitrary symbol, so no one will possibly think it’s the real deal.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • shastaxc@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        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

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • MondayToFriday@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          8 months 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

          • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            8 months 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.

    • Cheers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months 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.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      8 months 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.

  • vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    8 months ago

    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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  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      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.

  • donuts@kbin.social
    10·
    8 months 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.

    • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      So the executives will be overpaid by the amount the talking heads made plus the amount they were already overpaid by

      • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        They’ll get rid of everyone. It will just be a few at the top that already have power and money. A more efficient version of what we have today.

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          “More efficient” in that there is zero point to be opposed by anyone else down the line. While it’s not like we’re getting a lot of resistance from media workers all the time right now, real people are going to have a breaking point if things go too far in some direction. Now all executives will need to worry about is appeasing an audience, and with robot reporters that will say anything and everything, that’s not a problem in the slightest.