Channel1.ai generates authentic-looking "newscasters" to deliver stories. None of the newscasters are real people, but they look and act like real newscasters.
This is not an embedded video, just a screenshot of what one of the newscasters looks like:
Watching the demonstration, I was struck by how diligently the Channel1 team replicated "unbiased" broadcast news, a fairly old technology that is experiencing a general decline in viewership as younger audiences choose other ways to stay informed.
My question is: Would we call this creation skeuomorphism because it is a digital experience that replicates a real-life one, and keeps the mental model? I recently saw a post that stated that true skeuomorphism requires user interaction. Is consuming a video enough interaction for the definition to hold?