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AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during 2024 Summer Olympics

AI voice clone will narrate daily Olympics video recaps; critics call it a "code-generated ghoul."

On Wednesday, NBC announced plans to use an AI-generated clone of famous sports commentator Al Michaels' voice to narrate daily streaming video recaps of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, which start on July 26. It first uses a large language model (similar technology to what powers ChatGPT) to analyze subtitles and metadata from NBC's Olympics video coverage, summarizing events and writing custom output to imitate Michaels' style. The possibility of being muscled out by AI replicas factored heavily into a Hollywood actors' strike last year, with SAG-AFTRA union President Fran Drescher saying, "If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble.

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