"Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans. Under an agreement announced Thursday between Genies and MLB Players Inc., the business affiliate of the players' association, AI avatars of top stars will be created that can have conversations with fans. Each avatar will reflect a player's voice and interests."
"I am not a total luddite, and I can see certain paths toward long-term utility for generative AI and large language models. But this? Removing actual human interaction from an equation that is supposed to be ABOUT the human experience? I do not want this. I do not personally know anyone who I think would want this. How is this possibly a good idea?"
"You can, what, talk to a fake Mike Trout about his favorite chicken recipes? Ask a fake Justin Steele what he thinks about the Oscars moving to YouTube? Might be half-funny for about 10 seconds, before it inevitably descends into the only two possible paths: boredom or things no player would want a fake version of themselves talking about. It's a law of the internet, after all."
Major League Baseball players made an agreement to allow a tech company to create AI avatars that can chat and interact with fans, with avatars reflecting each player's voice and interests. Specific participants, interaction formats, and pricing remain unspecified. The plan removes live human interaction from experiences centered on human athletes and prompts skepticism about authenticity and value. Potential outcomes include brief amusement followed by boredom or harmful misrepresentations that players would not endorse. The initiative raises questions about the appropriateness of synthetic likenesses for fan engagement and the risks inherent to internet-driven distortions.
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