r/nottheonion • u/ToffeeFever • 8d ago

NBC Will Debut an A.I. Al Michaels for the Paris Olympics

https://www.si.com/olympics/nbc-will-debut-an-ai-al-michaels-for-paris-olympics
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u/mixduptransistor 8d ago

I'm sure Al Michaels thinks it's great cos they're probably paying him a lot of money to use his voice. The first couple of these will be the talent getting most of what they'd get anyway, to soften the ground, before eventually they pay next to (or actually) nothing in the future

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u/wooyouknowit 8d ago

And forget about new actors getting any work when they could just put some AI character actor that we all vaguely know in every little role

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u/gatsby712 7d ago edited 7d ago

Get Johnny Carson back on the tonight show and just have AI write his jokes based off of current events.

I am also ready to see Tom Hanks be cast into every movie with a captain that loses his plane, ship, etc

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u/davisyoung 7d ago

“Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.”

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u/BombTheDodongos 7d ago

How does it keep up with the news like that?

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u/tayroc122 7d ago

Don't praise the machine

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u/RobertEdwinHouse38 7d ago

That leads to AI Ed McMahon. Then AI Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, then AI Magazine subscriptions, then AI Columbia House CD and VHS clubs. Where will it end?

AI Napster vs AI Metallica

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u/Captain-Cadabra 7d ago

AI ED is just a button on the desk that makes the poorly animated robot say, “HIYOOO!”

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u/labretirementhome 7d ago

cries in Robot Geoff

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u/ThePhantomPansy 7d ago

Careful, Icarus.

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u/ZachMN 7d ago

Will probably evolve into ED-209.

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u/Lauuson 7d ago

We've already had AI Ed McMahon the whole time.

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u/trainbrain27 7d ago

Do not travel with that guy!

He even got trapped on an island during the pandemic!