"In a stunning move, Canada has declared war on the US", says a blonde American news anchor, in a video which has spread across social media from TikTok to X.
Looking straight into the camera, the anchor continues, "Let's go to Joe Braxton, who's live at the border."
Many of these videos are created with Veo 3, Google's AI video generation software, which allows users to create advanced eight-second videos, syncing audio and video seamlessly.
Sadly in the very near future we probably lose most news anchors... just have AI generate video from prompts to read out the news generated by LLMs. I'm sure it will be much cheaper.
Yeah, I can see it all day on Indian news channels hoe they have adopted to AI news readers for speed news, weather update and for other similar things. But its true it's the beginning for AI anchors.
People are so lazy that they can hardly conceive of how bad that is.
Race to the bottom. In the US/Europe healthcare, retirement costs, and taxes per employee add up. AI agents will suck but will be a fraction of the cost.
For example weren't they paying Stephen Colbert $20M/year? You might soon get a similarly unfunny AI agent for $1k / year in all in costs lol.
It's fine as long as you don't screw up royally, and it's even cheaper when you sell your data to the company that controls the AI. You no longer have sovereignty over your own public information, since you have to share it with other people, and now that data will not only be with service providers but will also be feeding AI. I don't think that's so cheap; it may be for the government mafia, but not for you. Much less if you're paying a private institution that uses it.
Intelligent people will never pay attention to representations of empty shells.
The Nigerian princess scam will be small fry compared to what we will see in the future.