11 h. ago Joke’s on you, fleshbag! Channel 4’s first AI presenter is dizzyingly grim on so many levels

The AI-generated host of Dispatches raises worrying questions about Channel 4’s environmental impact. She’s also a dead-eyed host who might leave Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Kevin McCloud fearing for their futureLast night’s Dispatches was called Will AI Take My Job? Usually when something like this employs a question mark in the title, it’s because the answer is no. Not this time, though, because the sheer overwhelming inevitability of AI taking our jobs is genuinely painful to think about.According to the film, 8m jobs in the UK alone are at risk of being outsourced by AI. Call centre workers, translators, graphic designers – anyone who isn’t a masseur or a scaffolder, basically – will soon be made redundant by a technology that, despite its catastrophic effect on the environment, is growing more sophisticated by the hour. My days are almost certainly numbered; it stands to reason that I will soon be replaced by the ChatGPT prompt “Be performatively exasperated about whatever was jus...

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26 h. ago Channel 4 announces UK television's first AI generated presenter

Channel 4 Dispatches have claimed to be the first British TV programme to use an AI presenter in their show Will AI Take My Job?, where they investigated how Artificial Intelligence is changing the workplace

Politics

6 d. ago Man behind Channel 4 voiceover shares secrets and one 'surprising' thing about job

A presenter has revealed he is the recognisable voice behind the Channel 4 programme introductions we see most days - and shared what a day in the life looks like

Society

1 week ago Ant Middleton being sued by Ministry of Defence over alleged breach of contract

The television personality previously presented Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins.

Politics

1 week ago Hollyoaks announce screening event to celebrate 30th anniversary and you are invited

Hollyoaks fans are invited to join some of their favourite stars - past and present - at a special screening event in Liverpool to mark the Channel 4 soap's 30th birthday

Politics

1 week ago A Place in the Sun's Laura Hamilton's shares true feelings on Amanda Holden after bikini row

The 43-year-old presenter of Channel 4's A Place In The Sun defied critics who accused her of being 'too old' to wear a bikini as she posted more swimwear photos from her holiday

Politics

1 week ago A Place in the Sun's Laura Hamilton shares true feelings on Amanda Holden after bikini row

The 43-year-old presenter of Channel 4's A Place In The Sun defied critics who accused her of being 'too old' to wear a bikini as she posted more swimwear photos from her holiday

Politics

1 week ago Sky News star announces she's signed off from final show in huge shake up

Sophy Ridge, Sky News' politics presenter, first joined the channel back in 2011 and has fronted Politics Hub since 2023, but she's now leaving the politics programme

Politics

2 w. ago A Place in the Sun's Laura Hamilton says 'you're crazy' as she reveals show frustration

A Place in the Sun presenter Laura Hamilton, who has been a fixture on the Channel 4 property show for more than a decade, discussed the "timeless" nature of the show

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4 w. ago CBeebies presenter Sarah Jane Honeywell reveals she 'couldn't afford to put her heating on' and resorted to using a log fire

The presenter, 51 was a star of the children's channel from 2002 to 2011, but later lost her job shortly after posing topless on a giant plate of food in central London for a Peta campaign in 2011.

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