None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters - eviltoast

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

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    11 months 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.

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      11 months 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.

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      11 months 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.

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      11 months ago

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

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      11 months 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.