“In one particularly stilted exchange about the pumpkin giveaway, Rose asked James, “And how have these free pumpkins impacted the community?” to which James responded, “The free pumpkins have brought joy to many.””
The Garden Island had two human reporters for an island of 73,000 people. It got AI anchors from Israeli firm Caledo instead, and they lasted two months. Caledo won’t say what it was paid, calls the program a success and still plans to sell it to hundreds of local papers. The bots are gone. The missing reporters stay missing.