Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The future of news? Israeli anchors launch AI-powered TikTok broadcast

Israeli news anchors are becoming avatars on a TikTok-based news broadcast that claims to be the world’s first fully AI-powered news network.

The broadcast, known as ACT News, is led by longtime Israeli journalist Miri Michaeli, who most recently worked for Channel 13 news. She has been joined this week by Amit Segal, a veteran Channel 12 political reporter and analyst, whose AI-generated avatar will provide insight in multiple languages.

The AI-generated voices of Segal and Michaeli sound markedly different than those of their real-life counterparts, and the lip movements do not always quite match up, but the casual viewer may easily mistake the videos for real recordings. READ MORE