BBC Question Time’s AI special featuring historical guests has left viewers baffled.
On Thursday (28 May), host Fiona Bruce introduced a panel made up of an AI-generated Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Frida Kahlo, and Emmeline Pankhurst, as they discussed the rise of the rapidly expanding technology.
The BBC said it chose to include AI versions of the famous faces to help understand how “hyper-real and persuasive" AI-created images can be.
The AI panel was then replaced with real experts from the world of technology.
Some viewers were unimpressed with the show, calling the segment “slop”. One commented, “There's no ethical usage of generative AI, what the hell are you doing endorsing this by showing it?”
