And so it begins in UK. First TV channel and its AI presenter

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I can’t even handle AI-voiced narrators; let alone, wanabe humans.

Actually, Jack Nicholson predicted this years ago, telling evryone that Hollywood would phase out human actor$.
Cheap, cheap, cheap.
Hollywood isn’t much better than a bird convention.

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Are the British required to have a television and subscribe to the BBC?

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If you have a television in the UK you are required to pay the BBC license fee…but there’s no requirement to have a TV

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Nor watch the AI rubbish

AI in Hollywood is about the only way I could bear it methinks - cant tell the difference there for sure these days.

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A 1981 movie (Looker) had computerized replacement of human actors as a theme:

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Not forces to have a TV but if you or watch TV on any other device, you have have a TV licence, same here in Republic of Ireland both roughly cost the same per year.

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What an excellent piece thanks for sharing.

Are commercials for consumer goods allowed? Can corporations advertise their wares on television for a fee?

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I was joking with a woman on the bus today; about AI new’s commentators.
Ironically, the human is being replaced by an out of Renoir, virtual AI commentator.
So anti-human; they’re virtually identical!

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Despite what you might be told by various so called reliable sources a TV license is not required unless you are watching Live BBC or other registered TV company broadcasts.

You can watch any on demand content including live broadcasts by youtube channels that are not registered TV broadcasters.

So you cannot watch say Sky News live on youtube but you can watch all of its on demand news replays without needing a license.

Confused? Everyone else is too, by design.

The TV license is not enforceable, makes zero sense in this Web 3.0 landscape and will soon be scrapped and replaced with some kind of internet streaming tax system no doubt.

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Weaponized and/or Criminalized…
That’s the ticket!

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Not on BBC channels, but the other ones. In Ireland ads run on every channel. Our Ministry of Truth is paid the population and advertisers. We are past Kansas and the notion of a conflict of interest!

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In Ireland - ā€œ television set ā€ means any electronic apparatus capable of receiving and exhibiting television broadcasting services broadcast for general reception (whether or not its use for that purpose is dependent on the use of anything else in conjunction with it) and any software or assembly comprising such apparatus and other apparatus; we’re rightly screwed, but there is no ambiguity.

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Loved your…
ā€œWe are past Kansasā€¦ā€ !!!

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Whatever comes next over here will definitely tighten up the language, I have an LG oled C1 from around 3 years ago and stopped allowing firmware updates a while back. These modern android based TVs can send telemetry back to god knows who including all router side IoT devices and in the future who knows? Maybe the Io(Bodies) gets plugged in for the full spying experience.

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Just happened to be catchinh up on some rt.com shows.
This one began on wide topic of Broadcast Censorship, with a focus on the UK.
[I’m up to 14:30 clicks in…]
ā€˜Ukraine is a dead man walking: defeat is inevitable, they have no way to recover’ – former CIA analyst Larry Johnson — RT Sanchez Effect

OK on censorshop.

But then gets into the Venezuela boats.
Which could go out to point A to drop loads…
Johnson, ā€œexpertā€?
Expert at obfuscation?
Or, getting way past Kansas territory… ?
Basically, stopped listening there…

Or, this sarcastic drive-by viewpoint.
A great start:
Is that Biden’s son Hunter?
No, That’s Trump Son…
https://rt.com/shows/moscow-mules/626626-trumps-humiliation-european-leaders/

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Larry Johnson is excellent as his sonar21.com blog

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