Having artificially generated news anchors seems so bizarre to me.

It's one person that in a country like china will be seen by tens or hundreds of millions of people. Is it really worth it to axe that job and put some uncanny valley CGI figure in their place? The per viewer cost saving must be fractions of a penny, and it risks putting off a not insignificant amount of people.

Now, if initiatives like this can be used for things like generating a figure that can do sign language in the corner of a screen that would be an amazing development, but this? I just don't see it.

I even get it for broadcasting to a very small audience, such as languages with almost no speakers. E.g. having an always-available Welsh language presenter. But this? Nah.

Max headroom would like to have a word.

Things humans can do that ai can't, currently do, politicking, sleeping to the top, building a brand outside of work, demonstrating integrity

Talk about the uncanny valley... They look like an instagram filter dialed up to 11.

Stations in the US are already trying it.