The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
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Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#2Small discussion (10 points, 23 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42203016
Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#3Incredibly, no videos linked in an article about a video newscast. I think this is an example. The AI doesn't even pronounce "AI" correctly. Interestingly, it looks slightly offscreen just the way real newsreaders do when they're on prompter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7Q2S7VWUk
They do a lot right. There's interaction between the bots. They look kind of professional but not Los Angeles/New York quality, which is what you'd expect from a smallish market. Their movement is also kind of stiff and amateurish, which I believe is intentional.
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#5Slightly tangential, but this is the reason I'm baffled why people think that AI-driven podcasts would ever be worth listening to.
If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy as something like Good Job Brain, Radio Lab, or Ask Me Another, then I'll eat my hat. I don't even own one. I'll drive to the nearest hat store, purchase the tallest stovetop hat that I can afford and eat it.
Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#6Incredibly, no videos linked in an article about a video newscast. I think this is an example. The AI doesn't even pronounce "AI" correctly. Interestingly, it looks slightly offscreen just the way real newsreaders do when they're on prompter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7Q2S7VWUk They do a lot right. There's interaction between the bots. They look kind of professional but not Los Angeles/New York quality, which…
Newscast teleprompters are directly in front of the camera lens specifically to not have them looking away from the lens. This has been a solved technology for decades. Perhaps you're thinking of cue cards or the teleprompters speakers use in a speech live audience type of setting?
Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#7Give it time y'all. This is the first inning, and I'm already terrified.
I encourage you to have a conversation with ChatGPT's advanced audio for a taste of what's to come. If you can, have someone talk to it in a relatively unpopular language like Afrikaans or even Icelandic--they will shit their pants.
Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#8Slightly tangential, but this is the reason I'm baffled why people think that AI-driven podcasts would ever be worth listening to. If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy as something like Good Job Brain, Radio Lab, or Ask Me Another, then I'll eat my hat. I don't even own one. I'll drive to the nearest hat store, purchase the tallest stovetop hat that I can afford a…
I've yet to hear an LLM-generated podcast about an article that wouldn't have been better if the AI had simply read the article aloud.
Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#9Incredibly, no videos linked in an article about a video newscast. I think this is an example. The AI doesn't even pronounce "AI" correctly. Interestingly, it looks slightly offscreen just the way real newsreaders do when they're on prompter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7Q2S7VWUk They do a lot right. There's interaction between the bots. They look kind of professional but not Los Angeles/New York quality, which…
Love this so much, not in the way intended. Its just so strange! I can't put my finger on it, but feels like something Tim and Eric, or Tim Robinson, or even Alan Resnick would have a hand in.
There is a kind of aesthetic immanence to whole thing, everything is right on the surface. The voices are only just embodied "enough," their unearned confidence, their "affectations." The deadpan delivery on an absurd stage. The colors all feel like a cake that is too sweet. Like approximating a memory of a broadcast.
It is hilarious and beautiful. No notes.
Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
#10"Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."