When I was a teenager at school we had a history teacher who stood in front of the class in every lesson and just wrote dates and event titles from history, over and over and over, day in, day out, for five years. Today, almost forty years later, I still consider the delivery of this particular teacher as the most boring, uninspiring, monotonous and pointless attempt at imparting knowledge I have ever had to put up with. Sorry, but watching this show and watching that scanned and comprehensively AI'd presenter (smiling strangely at really inappropriate moments) provided me with almost exactly the same experience. I really enjoy 'alien' shows and films, but this show is in danger of almost single-handedly spoiling the genre for me ... that and any number of B-movies from yesterday-year. The AI'd presenter was clearly 'faked' in that the mouth movements seemed obviously disjointed from the rest of the face and he constantly looked like he was going to be seriously ill at the end of every sentence! My current opinion of the threat from AI to the entertainment industry, if this show is typical of what to expect, is that it is not a threat!!! If the industry insists on going down this route though, then I suggest the industry will rush headlong into its own demise. Hara-kiri is what the Japanese samurai call the process. Having said all that the 'distorted' artwork was very enjoyable ... which is not what all the artists out there would want to hear.
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