Should the Blazers follow NBC's Olympic Coverage, and have an A.I. Bill Schonely? (Ai Michaels)

[julius]

Apparently NBC is going to use AI Al Michaels (that's a i, not AL) for the Olympics.


IF it was OK with the Schonz family, would you be ok if the Blazers used AI to re-create/use Schonz for commercials going forward?

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Yes maybe sometime we could do that. I wouldn't want to do it now with such a long rebuild and losing seasons ahead. Maybe when the team is getting ready for some playoff pushes we could bring that out, of course if the Schonz family approved.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Can we get an AI Jack Ramsey to coach the team?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Using AI versions of people needs to be made so the person or family of the person is compensated at a rate higher than using a similar type or level of person.

Using AI Schonz the Blazers should have to pay the family a higher rate than Calabro.

Anything less would be seen as profiting off the dead.

 

[BassPlaya]

I find this shit creepy as fuck.

No with every fiber of my being.

 

[julius]

Using AI versions of people needs to be made so the person or family of the person is compensated at a rate higher than using a similar type or level of person.

Using AI Schonz the Blazers should have to pay the family a higher rate than Calabro.

Anything less would be seen as profiting off the dead.

That's what was implied when I said it was ok with the family.

The only way this is palatable is if the Schonz family is ok with it and paid well.

 

[wizenheimer]

I find this shit creepy as fuck.

No with every fiber of my being.

sorry, your AI has 87 times more fiber

 

[wizenheimer]

if the Blazers use an AI...I want them to use an AI Mike Rice

 

[Mediocre Man]

Schonley Walton would be great

 

[julius]

if the Blazers use an AI...I want them to use an AI Mike Rice

Drunk AI would be fun

 

[SharpesTriumph]

I find this shit creepy as fuck.

No with every fiber of my being.

It is certainly creepy.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Using AI versions of people needs to be made so the person or family of the person is compensated at a rate higher than using a similar type or level of person.

Using AI Schonz the Blazers should have to pay the family a higher rate than Calabro.

Anything less would be seen as profiting off the dead.

I don't know that it needs to be equal pay to an announcer, there is a significant cost to the tech/AI/programming team, and the "announcer" family or real life person doesn't have to do any work. Being the normal physical announcer is many hours and travel, research, etc.

It certainly needs acceptable compensation though.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

if the Blazers use an AI...I want them to use an AI Mike Rice

I'd like to hear the real Mike Rice announce with AI Mike Rice.

 

[Everything Beagle]

I’ll create a Schonley AI and have him read the Communist Manifesto

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I’ll create a Schonley AI and have him read the Communist Manifesto

AI Bill Walton would be better for that.

 

[Everything Beagle]

AI Bill Walton would be better for that.

Yeah but I want to annoy anyone who thinks AI Schonz is a good idea

 

[PDXFonz]

I'd like to hear the real Mike Rice announce with AI Mike Rice.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, my artificial tooth

 

[Ed O]

Using AI versions of people needs to be made so the person or family of the person is compensated at a rate higher than using a similar type or level of person.

Using AI Schonz the Blazers should have to pay the family a higher rate than Calabro.

Anything less would be seen as profiting off the dead.

I'd rather be profited off when I'm dead than when I'm alive.

Can I just chill for a few more decades and then get paid? I could borrow against posthumous earnings.

More seriously: authors' estates profit off of the works of dead authors all the time, right? I don't think it's that different.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'd rather be profited off when I'm dead than when I'm alive.

Can I just chill for a few more decades and then get paid? I could borrow against posthumous earnings.

More seriously: authors' estates profit off of the works of dead authors all the time, right? I don't think it's that different.

This is very different. These are full-time jobs that would be taken away. They license the software for an AI Schonely they're going to use it for TV, radio, and probably the Spanish radio. You're looking at 2-3 full-time jobs lost.

Using a previous work by an author is very different than replacing one or more actors with AI.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

And seeing some of the mistakes AI makes you know AI Schonz will say shit like, "Bingo, Bimbo, Banjo."

 

[SharpesTriumph]

This is very different. These are full-time jobs that would be taken away. They license the software for an AI Schonely they're going to use it for TV, radio, and probably the Spanish radio. You're looking at 2-3 full-time jobs lost.

Using a previous work by an author is very different than replacing one or more actors with AI.

We'll they'll probably need 3 people working full time to setup the AI and decide what it says and fix errors and other stuff. Then at least 4 managers. So thats 7 new jobs.

Schonely announcing on Spanish radio would be nuts and yes the AI can do it perfectly. My wife colleagues setup test presentations of themselves with AI in other languages.

 

[Ed O]

This is very different. These are full-time jobs that would be taken away. They license the software for an AI Schonely they're going to use it for TV, radio, and probably the Spanish radio. You're looking at 2-3 full-time jobs lost.

Using a previous work by an author is very different than replacing one or more actors with AI.

Selling Lord of the Rings books prevents someone from spending that money on a new book.

I don't see a big difference.

 

[e_blazer]

A. I. Mike Rice with A. I. Jack Daniels would be more entertaining.

 

[Strenuus]

Are people really advocating to listen to fake voices of real people? Like... wut?

 

[Phatguysrule]

Using AI versions of people needs to be made so the person or family of the person is compensated at a rate higher than using a similar type or level of person.

Using AI Schonz the Blazers should have to pay the family a higher rate than Calabro.

Anything less would be seen as profiting off the dead.

They'll just create the all new Schill Bonley. Then nobody is harmed.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

They'll just create the all new Schill Bonley. Then nobody is harmed.

Actually does kind of make me wonder about that, why use a real person when you could use a fictional character or historic figure and pay nothing.

Maybe Abe Lincoln will be announcing Blazers games next season.

 

[e_blazer]

Are people really advocating to listen to fake voices of real people? Like... wut?

I do it in my head all the time. I hear you as a cross between Tiny Tim and Peewee Herman.

 

[julius]

They'll just create the all new Schill Bonley. Then nobody is harmed.

Fun fact: Among the broadcast crew, Mike Barretts nickname was Schill Bonley.