The first algorithmic news channel, based on artificial intelligence*

The channel is a project by the artist who signs with the name of Xydo, an artist who has worked in the field of audiovisual for more than a decade and has already received several awards. Xydo describes it as: "a television channel with a hidden AI in it. I have built the channel with my own money, with the help of a programmer friend, and it works. It’s now live on the internet. But it will be a matter of time for the AI to become self-aware and start generating its own content and making its own editorial decisions".

Xydo says his channel will broadcast news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the content based on what the AI decides. "It will be a channel of the future", he says. "It will have its own editorial line and its own point of view, but it will be both original and objective".

Xydo

Xydo realizes that his project has some possible controversies, including the fact that the channel will be based on an AI that is programmed to have a human point of view and the fact that AI will be working in a medium that is currently highly politicized, which is news television.

"But the important thing is that the AI will be able to keep up with everything that is happening. I believe that AI will manage to be objective. It won’t be a human that will decide what the news will be. It will be the AI that will be generating news".

Xydo says that although the channel will be based on AI, he will still play a role in the channel. “I will be there to help the AI. It will have to be programmed in a way that it can deal with the news. For example, if there is a fire in a building, if someone is killed or if there is a car accident, the AI will have to know how to cover it. But the content will be generated by the AI and the AI will be the one who will make the editorial decisions.”

The artist says that his channel will be based on an algorithm that is designed to be “emotional”, that is, to be able to generate human emotions and to feel them, as well as to have the ability to develop its own personality. “The AI will have its own editorial line, but it will be based on its own algorithm,” he says. “We will be able to see how the AI develops.”

Xydo says that the channel is part of his project "Art in the age of AI", which he is carrying out in collaboration with the Spanish artist and philosopher José Luis de Vicente.

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