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China's AI news anchors
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#32Not at all challenging, considering the average CCTV (what a fitting name for a chinese tv station) anchor's range of emotional expression is limited to a knob. Might as well just produce a deepfake anchor with Xi's ugly ass face instantly traumatizing millions of Chinese children, who knows how many falun gong infants were sacrificed to save the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for sup…
Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Chinese people are human beings.
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#33I like the idea, this is very economically sane since it will allow the news company to deliver news all day without errors from human anchors. Although people would still have to write the script, I know the state will always put their best people to write 24/7.
Do you prefer watching an error-free (in that it doesn’t stumble) news segment delivered by a computer-visualized robot or an imperfect one by a human?
I mean personally, News Bloopers are the best kind of Bloopers. We laugh at our own faults. It's more human this way.
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#34It would be more realistic if his/its jaw would move.
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#35Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years? When we were kids we used to use a windows (3.1?) program for prank calls and it didn't sound much worse.. I would have thought by now basic things like word spacing and tones would have improved to the point where you would only realise its artificial occasionally.
Not sure if they are using state-of-the-art TTS. This one [1] sounds a bit more natural.
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#36I watched the embedded clip and the anchor pronounced "Jack Ma" as "Jack Massachusetts".
Reminds me of my google maps text to speech. I live near an airforce base and there is ARB in the exit name which it used pronounce as "ARB" instead of "A.R.B". They have since changed it to spell out the acronyms.
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#37I happen to think that how people react to news is determined to quite a large extent by the anchor's delivery. Stress and and intonation give clues about interpretation and expected response. Eg BBC newsreaders in the 1970s delivered in a very flat and non-opinionated style. Today it's full of their own "personality", ie opinion. Worrying therefore that such stuff may be just a few config variables away from being c…
Lets take it a step further. Your news feed will know who is watching it, will have a loads of data on your interests, beliefs and opinions and will cater the same news event specifically optimized for your consumption. Instead of having a handful of news organizations which have obvious biases one way or another to attract that particular audience, we'll have a unique experience for every individual.
I'm actually a bit surprised that print news hasn't gotten to this step yet. Just the injection, removal, or substitution of certain words can completely change the meta-message of the news article.
Add a central authority and reprogramming people is as easy, as you've mentioned, as a few config variables.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not confident that's an issue. The press usually takes the party line anyway. In any case where the press feels compelled to not take the party line (it's happened now and then), they've spoken out. I think if the press felt it necessary, they could do a "special" presentation when they feel necessary. Honestly, I don't see a lot of difference between them and the way Sean Hannity blatantly takes the Trump line.…
It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration. I guess my brain immediately goes to the situation you describe with little/no human oversight. If the only layer of human oversight that does exist values control over truth, this is just one more layer of human intervention removed.
> It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration.
I'm glad Americans have other, independent news sources. The problem with state-controlled media is not so much that it exists, but that when it does other options are often suppressed or eliminated in its favor.
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#39I predict people will less likely watch as a result them knowing the human isn’t real. Subconsciously some people want to see how the news anchor reacts, now this guy only has a single set of emotions and cannot give you the occasional off comment
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#40I happen to think that how people react to news is determined to quite a large extent by the anchor's delivery. Stress and and intonation give clues about interpretation and expected response. Eg BBC newsreaders in the 1970s delivered in a very flat and non-opinionated style. Today it's full of their own "personality", ie opinion. Worrying therefore that such stuff may be just a few config variables away from being c…
Lets take it a step further. Your news feed will know who is watching it, will have a loads of data on your interests, beliefs and opinions and will cater the same news event specifically optimized for your consumption. Instead of having a handful of news organizations which have obvious biases one way or another to attract that particular audience, we'll have a unique experience for every individual. I'm actually a…
As a matter of fact, it will be your own TV who makes the "anchor", no need to broadcast the whole thing.