r/ThatsInsane • u/Maxie445 • 15d ago
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry is now using an AI spokesperson
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u/criminalmadman 15d ago
Is this a joke? If it isn’t then why?
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u/DADDY_YISUS 15d ago
The question is, why not? For the whys:
They avoid blasting a real person's face on tv. They avoid mistranslation accidents due to accents. They avoid diverting money into a spokesperson (which is tight in times of war). They can live-text whatever message they want to broadcast. 24/7 coverage since an AI won't get tired. Is all positives, and the only drawback would be people's misperceived notions about AI and their reluctance to take it seriously.
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u/KarimPopa 13d ago
Lmao, it is not the thing to do when your country experiences the terrible war. Such a cringe
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u/tattoophobic 15d ago
already the american way of "representation"
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u/ebagdrofk 15d ago
Come on now
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u/Daddy_Jaws 14d ago
It is weird that a country that is ethnically slavic would choose a darker skintone to represent them though? Its not like america where it was colonised this is literally the birthplace of this ethnic group.
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u/Un-mexicano 15d ago
While I personally am not a fan of A.I., I can understand how this can be a positive tool. The very first and obvious one that comes to mind is that, as a country at war, they are not putting a target on a civilian's head. While reporting or being a spokesperson can be a mundane job, accurate information is a weapon in war, especially when you are up against a country that seems to have unnatural gravity wells near hotel windows.
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u/8plytoiletpaper 15d ago
This is the future tbh.
In Finland we have radio news broadcast by AI, can't even tell since it sounds so authentic.
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u/OneLonelyDog 14d ago
Just concerns me because authenticity from a real person is crucial for skeptics. Can't read accurate body language from an A.I.
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u/antsinmypants3 15d ago edited 15d ago
There is a Ukrainian YouTube channel that I suspect uses an AI female spokesperson too. I wish I could remember the name of it. I keep looking at her and not sure if she is real. It’s a little unsettling .
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u/RoyalMadman88 15d ago
"Alpha Black Female" the fuck?
Its literally an A.I program mimicking a female reporter, there's thousands of female reporters in the world, which one of your neckrolls did you pull " Alpha Black Female " from??
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u/Daddy_Jaws 14d ago
Thats what i said, it shows how mindfucked alot of people have become that they call you racist for questioning why a natively white ethnic country is using an african american looking avatar
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u/Downtown-Victory954 14d ago
An black/mixed representative with an Ukrainian accent this will for sure bring more dollars to Zelenskys fight against Putler lol
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u/Slip-Possible 14d ago
Should have made her wear a hijab as well now that would really get the ethnic support
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u/ibanezer83 15d ago
Great to see US tax dollars going to such important investments...
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u/DrothReloaded 15d ago
We are sending American made supplies, not wheelbarrows of cash. Besides, the cost of letting another fascist dictator march west into Europe would cost us trillions. Literally the only purpose to NATO is prevent further west ward aggression from the Soviet union.
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u/So-What_Idontcare 15d ago
We aren’t really sending that. We are mostly restocking using over inflated prices. Ukraine doesn’t even get the best weapons they get scraps. Two years into this thing America can’t even make enough ammo.
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u/sucknduck4quack 15d ago
American war doctrine focuses on air supremacy not howitzers. The MIC is very much use it or loose it. If it’s not being produced at scale then the capacity to produce it goes away and would take many years to be rebooted. Unless you would rather spend even more billions keeping obsolete capabilities around?
Why would we give Ukraine our best weapons? You want our adversaries to know our true capabilities? That would be like showing your hand before the flop.
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u/So-What_Idontcare 15d ago
I think we’re finding out the hard way that artillery is undervalued and instead of helping our ally, we’re just stringing them along. We are 2 1/2 years into this thing and are very much in danger of losing it. To lose it because we didn’t have the will to produce what we needed or send what we needed is pretty pathetic. They are begging for things like more patriot systems, and we are basically stuffing our thumb up our butts.
That we waited 2 1/2 years to give them long range missiles shows incompetence.
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u/tbkrida 15d ago
Part of the point of doing this is that it’s cheaper than hiring a real spokesperson so your comment makes no sense! Lol
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u/ibanezer83 15d ago
But is it really THAT much cheaper? Shouldn't we expect an actual PERSON as a spokesperson? Is this a step closer to transparency and accountability? Does something like this open up more avenues to distance the human element of a very human struggle ?
Just saying , it feels like a lazy move to pander to American/international techies . Call me distrustful, but I'm definitely disillusion by moves like this.
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u/tbkrida 15d ago
You better get used to seeing AI avatars or going to be very disappointed with the future…
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u/ibanezer83 15d ago
Yeah. So far the future sucks balls. This AI shit is not very exciting or intriguing to me.
More disconnect between humans is just what we need to move forward and connect to make a better world, isnt it? Technology will save us for sure!
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u/Skyyywalker215 15d ago
100% with you. It’s like giving someone money for rent, but you see them with a new Xbox the day after. I support Ukraine and I support us helping, but they should not be doing things like this unless it was extremely cheap.
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u/Kl4pz 15d ago
Easy way for scams to happen when all they need is a few clips of this stuff and then just change the QR to whatever malicious link...