I’m sorry about your house and the insurance company sucking. Is there any way to appeal?

The use of generative AI in NHL 27 was first reported by ESPN sportscaster John Buccigross, who also serves as the play-by-play man for EA’s NHL series. “They’re using some AI stuff now,” he said on the Chirping Zebras Podcast last week (via IGN). “They played me some stuff back in my voice. It’s like, wow, that’s pretty good. If it means less work and the same check, I’ll take it.”

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something else Buccigross related about the process: The AI is sometimes off.

“They were playing me back some of my AI voice, and they’re playing it like, ‘Score! And the crowd gets out of their chairs!’” he said. “I was like, no, they’re not chairs. I know, AI, they look like a chair, but we call them seats. Little things like that, you gotta go back and listen because those words matter in sports.”

So they’re not just having the AI mimic his voice, but even create the dialog? That sounds really lazy

I’ve had those mutual jump scares with deer a few times in my life

I’d bet a lot of the people inside the marketing department knew it was stupid also but their job is to try to sell whatever the big bosses want them to.

Thank you for getting the colors correct

I think in Cloudflare’s case the free tier website owners are more an example of just giving the users a limited product in hopes of enticing them to upgrade to the paid product with more features and better performance. Cloudflare might get some benefit in the ability to track end-users across more websites as part of their efforts to determine who is a real human versus a potentially-malicious bot, but I don’t think that really gives the same ROI like Facebook or other services extract from their “free” services where the users are the actual product.