New Year’s Day 2024 Special? What New Year’s Day 2024 Special? We’re back for New Year’s Eve 2023 instead!

The world changed a bit too much since we started the hiatus. In this episode we talk about the horror of a coming news channel that only has AI-generated characters for anchors as well as the financial instability and panic among the big traditional content conglomerates in the United States.

Links:

USA Today “None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters” https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2023/12/14/channel-1-ai-news/71925360007/
Futurism “Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors” https://news.yahoo.com/channel-1-says-itll-ai-133040729.html
PC GAMER “This startup news channel uses AI presenters and some genuinely impressive tech, but it sure is giving me the heebie-jeebies” https://www.pcgamer.com/this-startup-news-channel-uses-ai-presenters-and-some-genuinely-impressive-tech-but-it-sure-is-giving-me-the-heebie-jeebies/

Our first pick after the hiatus: The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent https://tubitv.com/movies/499632/the-saga-of-the-viking-women-and-their-voyage-to-the-waters-of-the-great-sea-serpent?autoplay=false

Our second pick after the hiatus: Beyond Atlantis https://tubitv.com/movies/505684/beyond-atlantis?autoplay=false

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