The Channel 1 service promises to launch a full version of its newscast with virtual anchors from 2024. The content is authentic, borrowed from news portals, repackaged and presented on screen by an AI-controlled photorealistic avatar. This service is planned as an intermediate version on the way of displacing live people from everywhere in the information space where something has to be told and shown.
The times when all families watched the same newscast with an impassioned newscaster are over. In the near future, the user will choose the appearance, behavior and other personal traits of the character, and the AI will “animate” it on the screen. They can be changed almost in real time, for example, business news will be read out in a funeral voice by an old clerk, and discounts will be announced by a sexless something painted in the latest fashion.
AI not only quickly compiles thematic news items, but also collects related information. It can add emotional coloring based on the analysis of likes and comments in social networks. It can lip-translate the words of an eyewitness in the frame from any language and voice the same in any language and in an arbitrary voice. If necessary, the AI will even dorisuet what was not in the frame, for example, the situation on the road before the car accident.
