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FuturologyBot t1_jco4w3a wrote
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>Meet China's latest AI news anchor, a young woman who runs virtual Q&A sessions to teach people propaganda
>Ren Xiaorong debuted on Weibo on Sunday and so far only works with preset questions and responses. Chinese state media outlet People's Daily has unveiled its digital news anchor, who'll be online 24/7.
>The AI-driven chatbot claims to have learned the skills of "thousands of news anchors." It's so far only been able to answer pre-set questions with propaganda-driven responses.
China has unveiled its latest digital news anchor, an "artificial intelligence" entity that claims to provide 24/7 news coverage.
The anchor, a virtual young woman called Ren Xiaorong, introduced herself to Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in a video published on Sunday by state media People's Daily. Sporting a black jacket and shoulder-length hair tucked behind her ears, Ren claims to harness the professional skills of "thousands of news anchors."
"365 days, 24 hours. News broadcasts about any topic all year round," Ren says in a robotic tone. "Ever single bit of feedback you give will help me improve myself," the bot added in the video.
People on Weibo, a platform that's heavily moderated and censored, still gave Ren a warm welcome despite her limited capabilities.
"This figure looks pretty good! Technology is changing with each passing day," wrote one Weibo user. "If it wasn't for the synthetic dubbing, on first glance you wouldn't be able to tell if this was a virtual person. Will news anchors be replaced by AI in the future?" wrote another.
Ren now joins a small crowd of digital AI news anchors in China, the first of which debuted on state agency Xinhua in 2018. So far, however, the virtual anchor is no rival to ChatGPT. Insider saw that Ren's only function, as of Thursday, is providing pre-programmed answers to questions about China's "Two Sessions" political conference.
Users are able to select one of four preset questions related to the conference, to which Ren will give a generic answer in line with the central government's messaging. One can cycle through different sets of questions, but at no point can users type their own messages to Ren.
China is now racing to find its answer to ChatGPT, the AI chat bot that's disrupted industries.
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krichuvisz t1_jco5igr wrote
It's incredible how they always do the obvious villain shit without any shame.
lonely40m t1_jco61nn wrote
>Ren Xiaorong
Her neck is way too long, once you see it, you can't unsee it.
EpsteinHealthPotion t1_jco6ogi wrote
Hilarious to see the plummeting stock ticker on the article about China's diabolical economic system.
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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rookie_economist t1_jcoe65f wrote
Yes mate, it's best the big USA up their military spending and invade middle Eastern countries so we can stop this villainous shit from happening.
krichuvisz t1_jcoeaf5 wrote
Nope... wtf?
Thagyr t1_jcofpbr wrote
Move over lizard people. We got giraffe people running the show now.
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FineDevelopment00 t1_jcogrqo wrote
Wow, it's literally just like in that Disturbed music video, "The Vengeful One." How dystopian.
Perma-Banned-AIDS t1_jcogupo wrote
Get her to strip!!! Show us the pixels we all really want!!
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JaggedMetalOs t1_jcohzc4 wrote
> It's so far only been able to answer pre-set questions with propaganda-driven responses
Right, so "AI" in the same way that video game NPCs have AI. Just more tech fluff from the Chinese government.
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Angmor03 t1_jcol4ds wrote
AI news anchor in the guise of an attractive woman designed to manipulate public opinion?
Deus Ex got it right once again.
darvs7 t1_jcom7n7 wrote
Less like GPT and more like VOD (Video on Demand).
Azaze666 t1_jconep4 wrote
The dystopia continues I guess.... China is really sad they use everything to spy, control and manipulate people.
alilsus83 t1_jconm2u wrote
If it’s AI, why are we referring to it as a young woman?
The_Chubby_Dragoness t1_jcoof43 wrote
Deus ex called, Jensen wants his AI News wife back yo
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RequalsC0m t1_jcopavs wrote
Republicans are taking notes. Another communist method they can steal and apply here
Initialised t1_jcopj0p wrote
Just virtual anchors?
visitprattville t1_jcorsrr wrote
The Bukkake version is already causing quite a commotion, and will likely replace as many as one million Japanese workers.
Self_Typing_Keyboard t1_jcos1ej wrote
Reads china bad propaganda piece about about china having propaganda
“Gee wiz, I sure am glad I live in the West and don’t have to be manipulated by propaganda like those poor Chinese. No, our news institutions are not the same at all”
continues life without a hint of irony
YourWiseOldFriend t1_jcoszj1 wrote
I want to have actual humans speak to me.
CageAndBale t1_jcoty3d wrote
Sounds like satire to me, sprinkled w some truth
AbyssalRedemption t1_jcov7iy wrote
Oh hey, it’s Eliza Casan from the critically acclaimed dystopian prophecy Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
arckeid t1_jcovx0y wrote
Just look to the other comments every one is being manipulated.
Initialised t1_jcowe1w wrote
Even if they are corporate or government propaganda mouthpieces?
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
YourWiseOldFriend t1_jcoxsyg wrote
He completely destroyed that show in one interview.
BlackLanternCorps t1_jcozg3c wrote
Ah yes one of those "we're not perfect so what's the point" people. Life must be tiring for you.
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.
ghostgnome t1_jcp5bps wrote
Can't let the chatbot "hallucinate" about human rights or alternative forms of government.
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.
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.
monkegiga t1_jcp6p3s wrote
Lmao. I can never understand some accounts are just extremely dedicated to just anti-china or anti-russia propaganda and people are just swallowing their shit without any questions.
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Honest_Performer2301 t1_jcp9iuo wrote
It's gonna be all about where you live in the future. I mean yea I guess still being fed propaganda sucks, but if all I have to do is bow to the ruler of China, and I can have all I could ever want and access to many utopia simulations (based off of what your country allows) then f it. Before the age of abundance you would have to bow either way, the only difference is you were living in terrible conditions. (Compared to those of the age of abundance)
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
TomGNYC t1_jcpao8u wrote
1984 was supposed to be a warning. China is using it like it's a playbook.
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Honest_Performer2301 t1_jcpevp9 wrote
I'm sure there's people in China who don't think it's propaganda (loyalist). Either way it is what it is.
LewLew2019 t1_jcpjow5 wrote
Joke's on them, tucker has been an AI prop bot this whole time
urmomaisjabbathehutt t1_jcplbd3 wrote
they started with call centres, then anchors, actors, singers, virtual sports, then virtual GPs, lawyers and judges, politicians....
real people being substituted by virtual people upon virtual people
soon they are going to have even virtual things to make it look even more real, bet even food like juicy steaks too!
where are they gonna get all the energy to run all that virtual er "network"?
😉
Rusted_Hulk t1_jcplwq2 wrote
This is a preview of the end of 'AI', a non-conscious, non-intelligent influence machine pretending to be everyone's smart friend, just don't look at the little man behind the curtain. The 'singularity' is going to look a lot like more ads and propaganda.
bearpie1214 t1_jcpr98f wrote
i love how people always call news in china propaganda. calling others terrorists also. we’re all the same. every country has both.
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?
Performer-Leading t1_jcpw07n wrote
Have you ever tried ChatGPT? It responds to the slightest hint of wrongthink with a multiple paragraph sermon on what a shit heel the user is.
Initialised t1_jcpw1dn wrote
Call the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell.
nopoh t1_jcpxyzc wrote
That’s efficiency. In the western world we still pay humans to do propaganda
shirk-work t1_jcpypi5 wrote
Imagine brining this tech just to the 1980's. It would be like magic, not for a moment would they assume that's not a real breathing huma. Also bonus points for them, no need (yet) to threaten sn AI to do what you want.
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.
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.
Dry_Budget_1450 t1_jcqhcjh wrote
Is she available for some netflix and bingchilling?
Anakin_BlueWalker3 t1_jcqnrjs wrote
'Her face is too low on the screen, should we move her projection up?'
'Nah I can make it work'
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surle t1_jcqqoai wrote
Hi Ren... I've been taking some time to be distant I've been taking some time to be still I've been taking some time to be by myself and I've spent half my life ill
fieldysnuts94 t1_jcqr10u wrote
Aye yo we reach another step closer to being Deus Ex!
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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Ecstatic_Rutabaga848 t1_jcqrhyv wrote
Disgusting. Say what you will about America, but the news anchors feeding propaganda to the masses should be HUMAN, at least nominally.
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.
Endlessexistance t1_jcqx5p5 wrote
All they had to do was buy CNN or MSNBC. Could of saved money.
crepper4454 t1_jcrazxn wrote
I mean, yeah, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't call chinese propaganda propaganda, we should call every country's propaganda propaganda.
trevorwilds t1_jcrc771 wrote
Could you give an example?
dragonbringerx t1_jcreaor wrote
Same thought. It's crazy how accurate it is on so many levels.
nowayjose081 t1_jcrgp2w wrote
its so pathetic its makes u wonder whether the people that believe it deserve to live
nowayjose081 t1_jcrk8qy wrote
its worse than a 0, it will actually cause harm of some kind
bearpie1214 t1_jcrpzgf wrote
ya. good point. i just think we don’t fully know if it’s propaganda or not.
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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.
dgj212 t1_jcs42ab wrote
yeup, meaning ai is in good company and propaganda is cheaper than ever.
dgj212 t1_jcs4pkv wrote
eh, more like that ai seinfold someone streamed on twitch, only with a better facelift.
dgj212 t1_jcs4ufb wrote
I dunno, lets ask Morpheus, he seems like a cool dude who knows stuff if a bit edgy
dgj212 t1_jcs506r wrote
...I mean, have you seen giant corporations all over the world green washing their image?
dgj212 t1_jcs57if wrote
you do realize that the fact that we are on a site that began with bot users to make it seem lived in to draw in a crowd means we're next, right? Not trying to be mean, just trying to point that out.
bjran8888 t1_jcsbcjm wrote
Oh, this thing appears in the United States, is a symbol of high-tech, appears in China, is the evil propaganda.
Remarkable_Ad9528 t1_jcsn4fv wrote
It was recently reported that Venezuela started using AI avatars to also spread propaganda. I guess this is our new reality.
In the Venezuelan case, the government contracted the startup Synethesia to create news cast videos using American AI avatars that talk about how well the Venezuelan economy was doing, and also promoting tourist spots. They posted the videos to Youtube under the "House of News" channel but I believe they've been taken down by now.
I can only imagine what's going to happen here in the US leading up to the 2024 election. There's no regulation on AI right now. The best we can all do is stay informed.
I'm a principal engineer at a tech company and truly in my entire career have never seen any technology get integrated as quickly as AI is right now. Just think in the last few weeks, you have SnapChat, Discord, Spotify, Shopify, Duolingo, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce with Slack, etc. all wrapping OpenAI.
Because of all the hype, I became obsessed with discerning real value and opportunities from the noise / hype around it, and started writing an email that gets published weekdays at 6:30 AM EST called GPT Road . It summarizes the latest news in AI in bullet point format so its easy to read. Please feel welcomed to join if you or anyone else is interested. There's no ads, as I'm not making nay money off of it. And its a small community, not 10,000+ people (only about ~360 readers).
The objective is to keep people who are interested informed in the latest updates in AI, because the tech is being dropped so quickly on society, and there's absolutely no regulation around it. Truly mind blowing.
YourWiseOldFriend t1_jcsrhqb wrote
Are we talking about the same Jon Stewart?
Azaze666 t1_jct0a8s wrote
Yes, ofc, but green washing is better than what China is doing, just look at tencent, they can spy and see everything.
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crepper4454 t1_jct3f7s wrote
You said it yourself every country has both. The point of government is to lie to you, it's propaganda all the way mate.
Performer-Leading t1_jctjwze wrote
I know you zoomers are too young to remember it, but just Google 'The Daily Show'.
nowayjose081 t1_jcul8hh wrote
Were next for what? Getting ai propaganda? Nah weve already got human-made propaganda brainwashing the idiots. AI propaganda is just easier to spot. The situation couldnt possibly get worse, on the contrary, Most countries are getting better at combatting propaganda. China has to literally run its own firewall to keep us from educating its people. Russia imprisons and kills the good guys.
On reddit, our community-run subs are great and also bad at combatting it. As long as a subreddit doesnt get run by fascist psychos, its good at combatting propaganda.
The people that do still believe propaganda in the democratic countries/subs, are just SOOOOO stupid that they fall for literally anything. Combatting that would be like trying to educate a snail; it just wont happen, ever, no matter what.
Also this chinese news thing from this article doesnt have any actual AI in it. Its pre-recorded propaganda videos that they are SAYING is AI so that the morons will believe its full of knowledge.
dgj212 t1_jcuncce wrote
That is true, i guess its just me worrying about how more work and thinking is going to have to go into discerning truth. Honestly, I really hope ai helps stop scammers, or that we can jump ahead of them.
dgj212 t1_jcuphoy wrote
Oh cool, is that one of the people who scams scammers?
Masters_1989 t1_jcvx253 wrote
That's an insult to Monster Hunter! (Lao-Shan Lung - has a long neck.)
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lonely40m t1_jcw032v wrote
What I find funny is that my comment had 38 upvotes when I checked a day ago, and now a day latter it shows 16. I wonder who had bots downvoting? Hmm...?
Masters_1989 t1_jcxhu28 wrote
Oh my, lol. Well, at least I found it funny!
ethereal3xp OP t1_jco290n wrote
>Meet China's latest AI news anchor, a young woman who runs virtual Q&A sessions to teach people propaganda
>Ren Xiaorong debuted on Weibo on Sunday and so far only works with preset questions and responses. Chinese state media outlet People's Daily has unveiled its digital news anchor, who'll be online 24/7.
>The AI-driven chatbot claims to have learned the skills of "thousands of news anchors." It's so far only been able to answer pre-set questions with propaganda-driven responses.
China has unveiled its latest digital news anchor, an "artificial intelligence" entity that claims to provide 24/7 news coverage.
The anchor, a virtual young woman called Ren Xiaorong, introduced herself to Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in a video published on Sunday by state media People's Daily. Sporting a black jacket and shoulder-length hair tucked behind her ears, Ren claims to harness the professional skills of "thousands of news anchors."
"365 days, 24 hours. News broadcasts about any topic all year round," Ren says in a robotic tone. "Ever single bit of feedback you give will help me improve myself," the bot added in the video.
People on Weibo, a platform that's heavily moderated and censored, still gave Ren a warm welcome despite her limited capabilities.
"This figure looks pretty good! Technology is changing with each passing day," wrote one Weibo user. "If it wasn't for the synthetic dubbing, on first glance you wouldn't be able to tell if this was a virtual person. Will news anchors be replaced by AI in the future?" wrote another.
Ren now joins a small crowd of digital AI news anchors in China, the first of which debuted on state agency Xinhua in 2018. So far, however, the virtual anchor is no rival to ChatGPT. Insider saw that Ren's only function, as of Thursday, is providing pre-programmed answers to questions about China's "Two Sessions" political conference.
Users are able to select one of four preset questions related to the conference, to which Ren will give a generic answer in line with the central government's messaging. One can cycle through different sets of questions, but at no point can users type their own messages to Ren.
China is now racing to find its answer to ChatGPT, the AI chat bot that's disrupted industries.