AI-Generated Al Michaels To Deliver Paris Olympics Highlights (nytimes.com) 21
Al Michaels, the 79-year-old American broadcaster, who first covered the Olympics decades ago, is returning to broadcasting via an AI clone. NBCUniversal and Peacock will use AI-generated narration by Al Michaels for daily customized highlight reels of the Summer Olympics. Officials say they anticipate seven million different variations of the customized highlights throughout the games. The New York Times reports: Al Michaels, the 79-year-old American broadcaster, who first covered the Olympics decades ago, is coming back to primetime. It does raise a key question, one that recalls Mr. Michaels's most famous Olympic call: Do NBCUniversal executives believe in miracles? NBC has been exclusively broadcasting the Olympics in the United States since 1996, and the network frequently finds itself subject to intense public scrutiny for its coverage of the Games. [...]
Subscribers who want the daily Peacock highlight reel will be able choose the Olympic events that interest them most, and the types of highlights they want to see, such as viral clips, gold medalists or elimination events. From there, Peacock's A.I. machines will get to work each evening cranking out the most notable moments and putting them together in a tidy customized package. Mr. Michaels's recreated voice will be piped over the reels. (Humans will make quality control checks on the A.I. highlight reels.)
Subscribers who want the daily Peacock highlight reel will be able choose the Olympic events that interest them most, and the types of highlights they want to see, such as viral clips, gold medalists or elimination events. From there, Peacock's A.I. machines will get to work each evening cranking out the most notable moments and putting them together in a tidy customized package. Mr. Michaels's recreated voice will be piped over the reels. (Humans will make quality control checks on the A.I. highlight reels.)
AI Generated viewers to boost numbers (Score:4, Funny)
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Hey, sexy mama. Wanna kill all humans?
Face Palm. (Score:2)
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AI porn FTW
My request (Score:5, Insightful)
I wish the announcers would SHUT THE FUCK UP during events.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, wants to listen to those motherfuckers during the ice skating and gymnastic events and so forth (I realize ice events are in the winter).
Announcers: SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET PEOPLE WATCH, rather than listen to you has-beens and never-wases.
Thank you.
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This will all be done after the day's events are over.
will use AI-generated narration by Al Michaels for daily customized highlight reels of the Summer Olympics.
in other words, what sport event(s) do you want to see highlights of? Since most people don't care about everything and, at least for us in the States, probably won't be able to watch things in real time, this will allow people to catch up on what they're interested in.
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Broadcasters should offer non-announcer feeds. Heck, put it on Peacock and people will subscribe for them!
Not to be picky about fonts, but ... (Score:5, Insightful)
AI-Generated Al Michaels ...
This seems like a good case for using a serif font. :-)
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This seems like a good case for using a serif font. :-)
Seriously. This headline makes my brain hurt.
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Maybe the avatar's going to be called "Ai Michaels"...
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Coming next: Weird Al vs. Weird AI...
unions need to strike at nbc universal over this! (Score:2)
unions need to strike at nbc universal over this!
Don't Stop There (Score:2)
Why not have AI athletes and AI medals? Then the AI sponsors can run millions of AI dollars worth of AI commercials advertising AI to all the people who don't have jobs any more because of AI.
As long as Mr. Alan Michaels gave his consent (Score:3)
and was financially well compensated, I am fine with the Artificial Inteligence generated voice doing the reels...
If people like how the artifical voice sounds, and if their opinion in tainted by them knowing the fact that it is Artificial, that's another issue entirely.
Hopefully there's a 6 finger avatar (Score:2)
It just wouldn't be right otherwise.
Why stop there? (Score:2)
How about boxing covered by AI Howard Cosell?
"Live, from New Paris..." (Score:2)
But seriously, I've wanted compulsory media labeling for decades (such as on the TV screen), ever since I realized that the average person would not be able to tell what is real footage versus a computer-generated animation, as in an outer space documentary. Now, clearly*, this will apply to human speech as well.
*Or unclearly, depending on your perspective.
what?!!! (Score:2)
first of all it should totally be ai Madden
secondly if you want ai to do the broadcast, you are going to need an ai that can do the broadcast
AI olympics (Score:2)
All of the olympics needs to be AI-generated. Except for the ozempic olympics.