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YourWiseOldFriend t1_jco91y4 wrote

It speaks to how far education has been dumbed down that people would expect a virtual news anchor to be anything else than a mouthpiece for national interests. Even human corporate shills say the same thing on US tv. Jon Stewart did a pretty harsh skit on it.

As with everything: it's not because it's new that it is better for that reason alone.

I would never watch that except the one time to see what it looks like and then never again. This isn't worth a moment's time. As a news source its value is 0.

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Phoenix_RIde t1_jcowfpo wrote

Jon Stewart doing a skit on it is the peak of irony considering what he did on Crossfire about 20 years ago

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YourWiseOldFriend t1_jcoxsyg wrote

He completely destroyed that show in one interview.

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the_lee_of_giants t1_jcp5afp wrote

retort with a deadpan delivery "you're wearing a bowtie." Carlson's descendants will be feeling that one for eons.

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Phoenix_RIde t1_jcp5c1o wrote

He did more than destroy the show. He ruined the network to everything he said he was against in the show.

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DaGrimCoder t1_jcpa6s3 wrote

>It speaks to how far education has been dumbed down that people would expect a virtual news anchor to be anything else than a mouthpiece for national interests

And in the united states people can't see that the same thing applies to the non-AI news

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dgj212 t1_jcs42ab wrote

yeup, meaning ai is in good company and propaganda is cheaper than ever.

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unresolved_m t1_jcqwjha wrote

Considering the amount of people on Reddit who told me that all news channels are exactly the same they certainly do.

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BlG_DlCK_BEE t1_jcqr427 wrote

It’s slightly different here in that the News in America serves mostly corporate interests whereas the news in China serves party interests. Yes there are conservative news stations and more liberal news stations but only insofar as they cover social issues, they refuse to comment on wage disparity or economic inequality to any major degree and always end up supporting bailouts for the wealthy while failing to cover labor issues in a meaningful way.

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nowayjose081 t1_jcrk8qy wrote

its worse than a 0, it will actually cause harm of some kind

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Initialised t1_jcopj0p wrote

Just virtual anchors?

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YourWiseOldFriend t1_jcoszj1 wrote

I want to have actual humans speak to me.

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Initialised t1_jcowe1w wrote

Even if they are corporate or government propaganda mouthpieces?

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theworldsucksbigA t1_jcp62al wrote

The living talking heads of today are more influential than the up and coming virtual talking heads.

But that'll change as more virtual heads start popping up and the simple minded get hooked on their words like they do to the current talking heads.

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Initialised t1_jcpw1dn wrote

Call the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell.

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CalligrapherSad5475 t1_jcqc29q wrote

Or when you think its a person but just AI. Who would be held accountable if they claim that it was never intended to be taken seriously, and/or the encryption is unbreakable? It's not a person lying, its a robot.

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altmorty t1_jcq3kw3 wrote

It's easier to counter what a handful of humans say to the deluge that an army of AI equivalents could pump out non-stop.

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dgj212 t1_jcs3y88 wrote

> I would never watch that except the one time to see what it looks like and then never again.

Well get used to it, all the tech bros like elon musk and jeff bezos praise china for their model and think the us should adopt it, so odds are it will be adopted by the us, maybe not in main media outlets right away, but odds are all tech companies will probably have an ai mascot to act as the company's mouth piece...you know, if the economy doesn't collapse this year.

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Performer-Leading t1_jcpvji4 wrote

Jon Stewart is a run-of-the-mill left liberal with inoffensive and bland takes. Do you people really believe that a celebrity multi-millionaire with a fake name is anything other than a corporate mouthpiece?

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