India now has AI news anchors, and they're not half as bad

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India now has AI news anchors. I tuned in and within the first 5 minutes, it's clear that news presenters are in serious trouble.

AI-generated anchors presented the news in India for the first time in April,. One of them, named Lisa, is now a news presenter on Odisha TV, a local station broadcasting in eastern India.

At first glance, Lisa could pass for a human news presenter. Upon closer inspection, however, the AI's slow blinking and stuttering motion was definitely unsettling to see. Lisa has a robotic monotone and fails to add the necessary shifts in tone that a human presenter might use. But keeping aside the discrepancies in the audio and video sync, her delivery would be serviceable.Videos uploaded state the presenter's name but do not specifically mention that Lisa is AI-generated. If you're just listening to the news while being surrounded by the low hum and chatter of the office, you could easily mistake her for a human.

In other words, she's an acceptable match for a 24-hour medium that's often left playing in the background of offices, cafes, and hospital rooms. The era of AI news readers isn't just on the horizon, this robotic revolution is already here. Today, Lisa joins the legion of other AI-generated presenters employed by newsrooms in

 

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