For now, however, the AI-generated anchors and correspondents look convincing, in the way that many AI-generated images are today, but Zabielski and Mosam acknowledge that they aren’t good enough just yet.
And while the demo currently relies on stock footage and photos, they intend to eventually use generative AI to recreate events that have happened, but for which cameras were not present. “We’re very aware of the LLM hallucination, hallucinations and things like that,” Mosam says. “We’re staying away from that. It’s established data sources that are really trying to add a new interface on the news.”
There are even liberal and conservative hosts who can deliver the news filtered through a more specific point of view.