The world is about to officially discover the first information television channel made… using artificial intelligence.
Channel 1, born in California, in the United States, promises to work just like traditional news television channels, but with pivots that are not made of flesh and blood, but created using artificial intelligence.
According to USA Today, the channel is scheduled to launch this year.
Channel 1 published, in fact, a promotional video explaining how it will work on social media – and yes, the video is also made using artificial intelligence.
See the highest quality AI footage in the world.
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Watch the showcase episode of our upcoming news network now. pic.twitter.com/61TaG6Kix3
— Channel 1 (@channel1_ai) December 12, 2023
The digital pivots then explain that the channel will cover international issues, as well as finance and entertainment.
“You can hear us and read our lips, but no one has been recorded saying what we are all saying. I am fed by sophisticated systems behind the scenes”, says one of the channel’s journalists in the video.
The Californian company used human actors, whose bodies and voices were analyzed and digitally processed, resulting in the creation of realistic avatars. On certain occasions, digital pivots will receive scripted news and, in these cases, they will also use words recorded by human actors, making the transmissions as realistic as possible.
