Searching for "fuck" yields 81 files. Searching for "shit" yields 146 files. Only two files for "cunt" though.

And why haven't they? Master Chief has been around since 2001, Lara Croft since 1996 and Darth Vader since 1977. The technology has been around for ages, and as far as I know, no networks have opted for virtual anchors.

Just from where you are pulling the data that on-air personalities are too expensive?

That's generally been my principle too. If it wasn't worth making by a human, why is it worth consuming by one?

Is the cost of on-air talent so great that you want to replace recognisable faces of your network with a generic voiceover?

Personally, I consider TikTok very different to news networks. TikTok is also primarily vertical video. Are news networks going to do that too?

Yeah, I have a hard time believing that there’s a massive demand for AI-generated videos and images. Like, why would the news industry want to generate images and videos with AI? It’s not news. The advertising industry maybe, but even then it’s probably not your top brands that go full in on it. If you see that all of Apple’s adverts are generated with AI, it’ll probably lower your brand perception.

We already put more importance on handmade goods vs. factory-made, even if the latter is cheaper and better quality. I have my doubts about humanity collectively embracing content generated from prompts by black boxes.