It was only on for 24 hours, but it could be the future of TV news. Which is pretty scary. 

"It" was a test of an all Artificial Intelligence News Channel that a company called Mirage (somewhat apt in this case) put up on X to see what the reaction would be. Everything on the station - including the anchors, reporters, closed captioning, intros and extros - were all generated by the computer. The only exceptions were a few licenced actual news clips. 

"The four anchors were completely generated by an AI agent using a mixture of Mirage’s Avatar X model, which the Mirage News Network release was ostensibly launched to promote, and tools like ChatGPT’s image generator and Google’s Gemini Text-to-Speech feature.

The days-old stories were licensed from Reuters’ wire service, and the only real people to appear across the stream were those featured in the videos that Reuters journalists filmed and the stock footage that accompanied such packages. For AI-generated guests who appeared for “interviews,” Mirage recruited more than a dozen people, mostly venture capital professionals, who authorized their likenesses and approved the scripts for what their likenesses would say."

From all reports, it looked remarkably real. But was it accurate? I've found that AI makes a lot of mistakes, even with accurate source material. 

Curious to see what this looked like? The test is over, but nothing ever disappears from the Internet. You can get a look at the entire 24-hour test on X here.

This AI Startup Made a 24-Hour AI News Channel. Who Wants This?