“Your Daily Olympic Recap on Peacock” will feature narration from a “high-quality A.I. re-creation” of the legendary sports broadcaster's speaking voice.
Michaels, 79, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Wednesday that he was initially “very skeptical” of the proposal from NBCUniversal executives — until he heard the AI-generated version of his speaking voice, which is capable of greeting viewers by name.
What a coincidence that the best broadcaster who ever lived or will ever live happened to be alive in time for us to record him and immortalize his voice to use for generations to come.
That’s why we’re doing this, right? Because there’s no other human alive who is capable of reading a script as well?
Yeah fuck having a potential future replacement do the recap instead. I guess I should add the word human to that last sentence because it sure as shit seems they are testing out his actual replacement.
Buck just puts me to sleep but Collinsworth gives me blind rage every syllable that leaves his mouth lol.
Edit: and wasn’t it Buck on the “DIGGS. SIDELINE. TOUCHDOWN. UNBELIEVABLE.” call? Fuck that’s one of my favorite calls 9f all time by an announcer not named Rick Jeanneret.
Hahaha Even as a heterosexual male who is on record for saying I would carry Josh Allen’s baby, when Collinsworth starts sucking Allen’s knob on air it kills my boner it’s so gay./s
Can the world just STOP with it’s bullshit already??? Stop with everyday needing to obsess over trump in the news. Stop with finding new, and bizzare uses for AI when it offers no benefit, stop with companies scheming together to collectively cause inflation, stop with corporations buying houses to artificially increase rent, stop with 48% of the nation actively supporting political facism.
JUST STOP WITH THE BULLSHIT!!! WHY ARE WE DOING ANY OF THIS???
Were you going to even watch the Olympics on NBC anyhow? Last time it played I tried to watch a few events and it was nothing but ads and profiles of people I don’t care about.
Like I get you are upset but I don’t know why. For me it’s like hearing some Austrian version of Ticketmaster are being assholes. Ok, I don’t live in Austria and if I did I still probably wouldn’t use whatever version of Ticketmaster they might have there.
Why is it so important to hear Al Micheals tell you about what you just saw? Do you even have a cable TV subscription?
You don’t need a cable subscription to watch NBC. Just a regular old bunny ears antenna. You could even use one from the 1940s if you want!
I know not many do, but I even have a lifetime paid subscription to TIVO. So I can just record things whenever, and watch them whenever, without the ads. I never watch live tv…but I watch tv that was recorded as it was live.
You could even use one from the 1940s if you want!
Assuming your tuner was manufactured later than around 2005 and supports ATSC digital broadcasts. Also makes me wonder when you got your TiVo. I thought they were dead long before everything went digital.
The antenna type doesn’t matter. If you don’t have a 1940s antenna, technically you can use a paperclip. It may not be strong enough to recieve the channel depending on local interference, but it might pick up the station with a strong enough signal. And anyone still using a tv with a tuner made before 2005 already has a tunerbox. Back in 2010 my dad even got one for free from the government.
Tivo never died. They’re still alive. I got mine in 2012. I estimated it takes 3 1/3rd years for it to become worth it to do lifetime service.
That was 12 years ago. Although I did have to spend $100 on a new hard drive.
When I saw this in my notifications, without context I thought you were replying to my comment about 18 foot tall ants in the Jurassic period building stonehedge.
There is a concept in post-modern philosophy called “hauntology”. This theory posits that late-capitalist societies loose their ability to imagine different social orders; and cannot imagine the future except as high-tech versions of the current social order. To fill the void of novelty, the culture industry must constantly recycle and repackage old culture.
Anyway, this isn’t a new phenomena, just a technology enabling us to resurrect live people instead of just fictional characters.
I’ve thought about this a lot. I think its more the sheer oversaturation of “culture” than it is a true lack of imagination. People alive today consume exponentially greater amounts of “culture” (for the broadest term possible) than anyone ever before, and it’s not even close.
When tech enables you to experience a movie or a video game or a performer 30 years after the death of everyone involved, in essentially the same fidelity as the day it debuted, “old culture” has a much harder time making way for “new culture.” If Star Wars exists, why care about Rebel Moon or whatever that movie was called?
I think the public consciousness can only maintain cognizance and interest in so much, but at the same time creatives are constantly adding to the Culture Pile. But the more tech enables us to hold on to our past, it becomes more and more difficult to move on, and the majority of new stuff goes unwanted and unappreciated. And so the mass market dives into keeping the old alive with reboots, remakes, remasters, and now AI recreations, because that’s what people respond to.
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Was this a phone interview, by any chance?
What a coincidence that the best broadcaster who ever lived or will ever live happened to be alive in time for us to record him and immortalize his voice to use for generations to come.
That’s why we’re doing this, right? Because there’s no other human alive who is capable of reading a script as well?
Yeah fuck having a potential future replacement do the recap instead. I guess I should add the word human to that last sentence because it sure as shit seems they are testing out his actual replacement.
STOP! BOTH OF YOU! Do you fucking want more Chris Collinsworth? Cuz this is how you get more Chris Collinsworth.
Or, god help us, Joe Buck!
Buck just puts me to sleep but Collinsworth gives me blind rage every syllable that leaves his mouth lol.
Edit: and wasn’t it Buck on the “DIGGS. SIDELINE. TOUCHDOWN. UNBELIEVABLE.” call? Fuck that’s one of my favorite calls 9f all time by an announcer not named Rick Jeanneret.
HERES A GUY
Hahaha Even as a heterosexual male who is on record for saying I would carry Josh Allen’s baby, when Collinsworth starts sucking Allen’s knob on air it kills my boner it’s so gay./s
Oh boy. I can’t wait for this to backfire in a spectacular and completely predictable manner.
Can the world just STOP with it’s bullshit already??? Stop with everyday needing to obsess over trump in the news. Stop with finding new, and bizzare uses for AI when it offers no benefit, stop with companies scheming together to collectively cause inflation, stop with corporations buying houses to artificially increase rent, stop with 48% of the nation actively supporting political facism.
JUST STOP WITH THE BULLSHIT!!! WHY ARE WE DOING ANY OF THIS???
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So people share and promote their coverage, so NBC can sell ad spots.
If you’re commenting on the story, you’re boosting the story, and that’s exactly what NBC wants.
Were you going to even watch the Olympics on NBC anyhow? Last time it played I tried to watch a few events and it was nothing but ads and profiles of people I don’t care about.
Like I get you are upset but I don’t know why. For me it’s like hearing some Austrian version of Ticketmaster are being assholes. Ok, I don’t live in Austria and if I did I still probably wouldn’t use whatever version of Ticketmaster they might have there.
Why is it so important to hear Al Micheals tell you about what you just saw? Do you even have a cable TV subscription?
You don’t need a cable subscription to watch NBC. Just a regular old bunny ears antenna. You could even use one from the 1940s if you want!
I know not many do, but I even have a lifetime paid subscription to TIVO. So I can just record things whenever, and watch them whenever, without the ads. I never watch live tv…but I watch tv that was recorded as it was live.
Assuming your tuner was manufactured later than around 2005 and supports ATSC digital broadcasts. Also makes me wonder when you got your TiVo. I thought they were dead long before everything went digital.
The antenna type doesn’t matter. If you don’t have a 1940s antenna, technically you can use a paperclip. It may not be strong enough to recieve the channel depending on local interference, but it might pick up the station with a strong enough signal. And anyone still using a tv with a tuner made before 2005 already has a tunerbox. Back in 2010 my dad even got one for free from the government.
Tivo never died. They’re still alive. I got mine in 2012. I estimated it takes 3 1/3rd years for it to become worth it to do lifetime service.
That was 12 years ago. Although I did have to spend $100 on a new hard drive.
Huh. Didn’t know TiVo was still around.
We use a Tabo at home. Like TiVo, but primarily for network access from phones/media streamers. Has a similar lifetime subscription too.
That might be the most appropriate username possible for this rant.
When I saw this in my notifications, without context I thought you were replying to my comment about 18 foot tall ants in the Jurassic period building stonehedge.
Aha. Found it. This is amazing. You fucking animal. https://lemmy.world/comment/10848070
Well that also would be appropriate.
They’re gonna call this pile of shit idea A.I. Michaels and act all smug about it, aren’t they?
There is a concept in post-modern philosophy called “hauntology”. This theory posits that late-capitalist societies loose their ability to imagine different social orders; and cannot imagine the future except as high-tech versions of the current social order. To fill the void of novelty, the culture industry must constantly recycle and repackage old culture.
Anyway, this isn’t a new phenomena, just a technology enabling us to resurrect live people instead of just fictional characters.
I’ve thought about this a lot. I think its more the sheer oversaturation of “culture” than it is a true lack of imagination. People alive today consume exponentially greater amounts of “culture” (for the broadest term possible) than anyone ever before, and it’s not even close.
When tech enables you to experience a movie or a video game or a performer 30 years after the death of everyone involved, in essentially the same fidelity as the day it debuted, “old culture” has a much harder time making way for “new culture.” If Star Wars exists, why care about Rebel Moon or whatever that movie was called?
I think the public consciousness can only maintain cognizance and interest in so much, but at the same time creatives are constantly adding to the Culture Pile. But the more tech enables us to hold on to our past, it becomes more and more difficult to move on, and the majority of new stuff goes unwanted and unappreciated. And so the mass market dives into keeping the old alive with reboots, remakes, remasters, and now AI recreations, because that’s what people respond to.
We fuckin on the Fisher bed tonight.