{"id":20549,"date":"2025-10-21T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/jokes-on-you-fleshbag-channel-4s-first-ai-presenter-is-dizzyingly-grim-on-so-many-levels\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:37:52","slug":"jokes-on-you-fleshbag-channel-4s-first-ai-presenter-is-dizzyingly-grim-on-so-many-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/jokes-on-you-fleshbag-channel-4s-first-ai-presenter-is-dizzyingly-grim-on-so-many-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke\u2019s on you, fleshbag! Channel 4\u2019s first AI presenter is dizzyingly grim on so many levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AI-generated host of Dispatches raises worrying questions about Channel 4\u2019s environmental impact. She\u2019s also a dead-eyed host who might leave Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Kevin McCloud fearing for their future<\/p>\n

Last night\u2019s Dispatches was called Will AI Take My Job? Usually when something like this employs a question mark in the title, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

According to the film, 8m jobs in the UK alone are at risk of being outsourced by AI. Call centre workers, translators, graphic designers \u2013 anyone who isn\u2019t a masseur or a scaffolder, basically \u2013 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 \u201cBe performatively exasperated about whatever was just on the telly\u201d. Grok could even whip up a byline photo of an unpleasantly smug egg to go with it. Nobody would be any the wiser.<\/p>\n

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\nThe AI-generated host of Dispatches raises worrying questions about Channel 4\u2019s environmental impact. She\u2019s also a dead-eyed host who might leave Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Kevin McCloud fearing for their future
\nLast night\u2019s Dispatches was called Will AI Take My Job? Usually when something like this employs a question mark in the title, it\u2019s 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.
\nAccording to the film, 8m jobs in the UK alone are at risk of being outsourced by AI. Call centre workers, translators, graphic designers \u2013 anyone who isn\u2019t a masseur or a scaffolder, basically \u2013 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 \u201cBe performatively exasperated about whatever was just on the telly\u201d. Grok could even whip up a byline photo of an unpleasantly smug egg to go with it. Nobody would be any the wiser. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AI-generated host of Dispatches raises worrying questions about Channel 4\u2019s environmental impact. She\u2019s also a dead-eyed host who might leave Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Kevin McCloud fearing for their future Last night\u2019s Dispatches was called Will AI Take My Job? Usually when something like this employs a question mark in the title, it\u2019s because the …<\/p>\n

Joke\u2019s on you, fleshbag! Channel 4\u2019s first AI presenter is dizzyingly grim on so many levels<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}