This Startup Wants to Create an AI-Generated CNN

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "And now for the weather..."

  Face melts and morphs into distorted illegible weather map background.

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• cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure this will end well

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can’t wait to see their version of fox with fake blonde porn stars in lingerie talking about how capital gains cuts make them so wet, daddy.

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I managed to track down some test footage

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• tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm not at all sure that the technology is there today (which the guy even says himself).

  But I do believe that there will come a point in time where it is, if it is not today.

  However, from a business standpoint, I think that the problem in making a compelling personalized newsfeed is less generating personalized video and audio and more in building a profile and determining what content the individual wants to see.

  Thing is, Google is already in profiling people and building personalized news recommendations, with Google News. And they have a lot more data on people and probably the individual reading the thing to use to feed any algorithms to generate recommendations. So I think that it's probably gonna be difficult to enter that field.

  That being said, I dunno. There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_News, which has the gimmick of offering a nude anchor doing the news. I remember thinking, some fifteen years back when it came out, "that won't last", but it's still around today. Maybe it's possible that there's room for a company to specialize in the presentation of the news, that there is room to really add value in how news is presented.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember thinking, some fifteen years back when it came out, "that won't last",

    It has lasted a lot longer than you realize. I remember watching it with my flatmates when it was on the internet and this was back in 1999.

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    • tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, you're right. About 25 years back. I'm pretty sure that it was coming, though, because I saw in the context of other news talking about it being a new novelty, and I'm pretty sure that they were talking about its start.

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• zzpza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t Allen Pan already try that?

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCSrN-e_dkE

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• wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder if the name is a conscious callback to "Channel One," which introduced Xennials to Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling, among others, as well as Crystal Pepsi and the concept of mandatory advertising at school.

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• livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm imagining some creepy mash up of https://newsminimalist.com and Replika.

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