The Generated Anchor: Startup Channel 1 To Premiere AI-Produced Newscast

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EXCLUSIVE: The anchor is in studio, speaking directly to the camera then cuts to a news segment, one in which the words coming from a French-speaking man come out of his mouth as English.

This is one of the elements of an AI-produced newscast being introduced later today by startup Channel 1, set to run on its own site, Channel.ai, as well as Crackle, Redbox Free Streaming and X/Twitter.

The Channel 1 startup, from entrepreneur Adam Mosam and producer Scott Zabielski, has a distribution deal with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, and the plans are to introduce a FAST channel in February or March followed by mobile and connected TV apps, the latter of which will offer personalization of viewers’ news diets.

Mosam, a tech entrepreneur who has been chief digital officer for Chicken Soup, said that, in contrast to previous, Max Headroom-like experiments, the technology “has gotten to a place where it’s comfortable to watch.” “Not only is the visualization there, someone that can speak to you and deliver the news, but there are so many other base technologies that we can leverage to further enhance the experience of watching the news,” he said.