May 8, 2025 • 5 mins
Skin has an immediate follow up to yesterday's AI segment, is using an AI generated voice a give up?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boogo bankin track.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah. Another edition of things skin is traffic. Thank you Shackleford.
All right, yesterday we were talking about the use of
AI to recreate a nostalgic thing. So in this case,
NBC on their NBA coverage is going to use the
voice of a guy. I believe his name was Jim
Fagan and he did all the vo stuff for the
(00:25):
NBC NBA coverage in the nineties. So when they had
that big John Tesh song called round Ball Rock or
whatever the hell that thing was called, he would be
the vo guy. So if you were, you know, like
me in your twenties and the nineties, and you're watching
the NBA on NBC and you saw Michael Jordan promo,
you heard his voice. So since NBA is going back
on NBC, Jim Fagan had passed away. So they reached
(00:48):
out to a sam and said we want to use
AI to recreate his voice to do promos. And the
family said, all right, we love money. And so they
did a poll on the athletic The people that responded
what percent They had two categories, one was lazy and cheap,
the other one was harmless and cool. What percentage of
(01:11):
people responding to this poll for NBC's use of artificial intelligence,
said that this was quote unquote lazy and cheap.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Eighty to accuse myself, I do know the answer, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Do think more people said that, but I'll do seventy
eighty three percent. Okay. Now let me ask you this, though,
if your options were good or bad, do you think
the same number of people would respond. Do you think
people just love the idea of saying that it was
lazy and cheap. I don't think they put a lot
of fun into it. And everyone's like, man, I don't
(01:47):
want them coming at from my job.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm gonna criticize this.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I am. I've just started dabbling in AI and I
dig it. And I gave you an example. I used
AI to make a graphic of our show, and for
the most part, it's like, all right, this is great. Like,
we hire an artist, local artist named Mick who's incredible
and he's done a ton of work for us over
the last few years. But it's very expensive because he's
very talented. I can't afford to do that every single time.
(02:13):
So I was like, great, if I need to, you know,
do a quick graphic. But I did catch some flagpor it?
People like, oh, I see you, dude, you're taking jobs
away from I go. Dude, nobody's paid local artists more
than me for radio artwork.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The second that you post, I'm like, anyone that works
in any creative feel is like, yeah, some a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I know, but dude, no one else is paying these
guys like me.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I'm like, I don't I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, it's it's it's just it's these are the moments.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, like these happen.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So you do a thing, most people aren't going to
know anything, and then the people that are creatives are
gonna be very upset by it, and they're gonna jump
into the comments, and then there's a whole other firestorm
that breaks.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'll give you an example, another example. A friend of
ours and I'll show it to you. During the commercial
break sent me it looks like the most beautiful advertisement
I've ever seen, Like a television commercial for a product
with a celebrity endorser in it, and it looks real
Like I was watching it going, wow, how did you
get that celebrity on that to go shoot that? It's
(03:14):
all AI like, I can't it's it. I'm like, you know,
and they were just doing it just for fun and
to you know, to get in the door with a client.
But I was like, wow, Like I I like I
dabble in it just with like chat, GPT and stuff
like that. But like, I don't know how they're getting
voiceover stuff done. I don't know how they're getting film
work done. I don't know what apps are you using
(03:35):
to create that? And that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean it's uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Scary too, because, like we've talked about before, if you
wanted to pretend to be the dictator of another country
and say I'm bomming you, right, I don't know how
to say if that's not real or not fire off
the weapons. Yeah, I mean, dude, it's it causes a
lot of anxiety.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And but in general, the future has always caused anxiety, sure,
because all technology seems like the devil's magic, no matter
at what point in time you are. And you know
what I'm saying. I mean, imagine showing someone in the
early nineteen hundred's moving film, right, jeez, you know what
(04:19):
I'm saying, Oh my god, wait, how did you capture
that imagery? What has happened, like, imagine the mind's being doing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
They're like when electricity was put in the White House
for the first time and the PRESIDENTI are like, Jesus,
what is that?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What is this devil?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
A switch and the lights come on?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
No, you think about how long history is and electricity
is what two hundred years old that we've harnessed it?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Crazy? Wow? And now there's Wi Fi and fiber cables
and satellites and undergrounded or that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Bro. There is information flying through the air in front
of your eyeballs right now that you don't even realize.
And we don't know who killed JFK.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nope, still don't know. All right, Coming up next in
the Hollywood Shuffle, let's turn our attention to simpler times.
Our guy skin Weight is known throughout country music as
being a huge ambassador for it all, and coming up next,
his guy Blake Shelton, has hit a milestone. We'll discuss
it through a rock lens. Huge Man on the Eagle,
don't go anywhere. That's next.
Boogo bankin track.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah. Another edition of things skin is traffic. Thank you Shackleford.
All right, yesterday we were talking about the use of
AI to recreate a nostalgic thing. So in this case,
NBC on their NBA coverage is going to use the
voice of a guy. I believe his name was Jim
Fagan and he did all the vo stuff for the
(00:25):
NBC NBA coverage in the nineties. So when they had
that big John Tesh song called round Ball Rock or
whatever the hell that thing was called, he would be
the vo guy. So if you were, you know, like
me in your twenties and the nineties, and you're watching
the NBA on NBC and you saw Michael Jordan promo,
you heard his voice. So since NBA is going back
on NBC, Jim Fagan had passed away. So they reached
(00:48):
out to a sam and said we want to use
AI to recreate his voice to do promos. And the
family said, all right, we love money. And so they
did a poll on the athletic The people that responded
what percent They had two categories, one was lazy and cheap,
the other one was harmless and cool. What percentage of
(01:11):
people responding to this poll for NBC's use of artificial intelligence,
said that this was quote unquote lazy and cheap.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Eighty to accuse myself, I do know the answer, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Do think more people said that, but I'll do seventy
eighty three percent. Okay. Now let me ask you this, though,
if your options were good or bad, do you think
the same number of people would respond. Do you think
people just love the idea of saying that it was
lazy and cheap. I don't think they put a lot
of fun into it. And everyone's like, man, I don't
(01:47):
want them coming at from my job.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm gonna criticize this.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I am. I've just started dabbling in AI and I
dig it. And I gave you an example. I used
AI to make a graphic of our show, and for
the most part, it's like, all right, this is great. Like,
we hire an artist, local artist named Mick who's incredible
and he's done a ton of work for us over
the last few years. But it's very expensive because he's
very talented. I can't afford to do that every single time.
(02:13):
So I was like, great, if I need to, you know,
do a quick graphic. But I did catch some flagpor it?
People like, oh, I see you, dude, you're taking jobs
away from I go. Dude, nobody's paid local artists more
than me for radio artwork.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The second that you post, I'm like, anyone that works
in any creative feel is like, yeah, some a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I know, but dude, no one else is paying these
guys like me.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I'm like, I don't I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, it's it's it's just it's these are the moments.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, like these happen.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So you do a thing, most people aren't going to
know anything, and then the people that are creatives are
gonna be very upset by it, and they're gonna jump
into the comments, and then there's a whole other firestorm
that breaks.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'll give you an example, another example. A friend of
ours and I'll show it to you. During the commercial
break sent me it looks like the most beautiful advertisement
I've ever seen, Like a television commercial for a product
with a celebrity endorser in it, and it looks real
Like I was watching it going, wow, how did you
get that celebrity on that to go shoot that? It's
(03:14):
all AI like, I can't it's it. I'm like, you know,
and they were just doing it just for fun and
to you know, to get in the door with a client.
But I was like, wow, Like I I like I
dabble in it just with like chat, GPT and stuff
like that. But like, I don't know how they're getting
voiceover stuff done. I don't know how they're getting film
work done. I don't know what apps are you using
(03:35):
to create that? And that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean it's uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Scary too, because, like we've talked about before, if you
wanted to pretend to be the dictator of another country
and say I'm bomming you, right, I don't know how
to say if that's not real or not fire off
the weapons. Yeah, I mean, dude, it's it causes a
lot of anxiety.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And but in general, the future has always caused anxiety, sure,
because all technology seems like the devil's magic, no matter
at what point in time you are. And you know
what I'm saying. I mean, imagine showing someone in the
early nineteen hundred's moving film, right, jeez, you know what
(04:19):
I'm saying, Oh my god, wait, how did you capture
that imagery? What has happened, like, imagine the mind's being doing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
They're like when electricity was put in the White House
for the first time and the PRESIDENTI are like, Jesus,
what is that?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What is this devil?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
A switch and the lights come on?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
No, you think about how long history is and electricity
is what two hundred years old that we've harnessed it?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Crazy? Wow? And now there's Wi Fi and fiber cables
and satellites and undergrounded or that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Bro. There is information flying through the air in front
of your eyeballs right now that you don't even realize.
And we don't know who killed JFK.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nope, still don't know. All right, Coming up next in
the Hollywood Shuffle, let's turn our attention to simpler times.
Our guy skin Weight is known throughout country music as
being a huge ambassador for it all, and coming up next,
his guy Blake Shelton, has hit a milestone. We'll discuss
it through a rock lens. Huge Man on the Eagle,
don't go anywhere. That's next.
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