APPENDIX: They ‘Do Not Need Rest Like Humans’: RT Debuts AI-Generated ‘Journalists’

This appendix contains images and tables from the report titled “They ‘Do Not Need Rest Like Humans’: RT Debuts AI-Generated ‘Journalists’.”

Images

Figure 1: Profile pictures for Alexander and Anastasia on the outlet’s Team Pages

Figure 2: AI-generated “digital presenters” are displayed alongside the RT staff.

Figure 3: 30% of segments explicitly disclosed the use of AI, highlighted, while the remaining 70% referred to them as “digital presenters.”

Tables

Table 1: Data were collected in June 2024 from RT Español. All videos listed on Anastasia and Alexander’s profile pages were evaluated.

Title	Explicit	Introduction
Travels by certain leaders generate controversy for mixing national interest with personal interest	No	Our digital presenter Alexander tells us about this controversy.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko breaks a world record by spending 1,000 days in space	No	Our digital correspondent Alexander tells us more.
Blessing or threat? Synthetic meat generates anxiety among the leaders of livestock production in Latin America	No	Our digital presenter, Alexander, tells us more about this controversial product.
China: The US is the biggest threat in space and tries to transform it into a battlefield	No	Our digital presenter, Alexander, explains how this controversy already has similarities with the rhetoric used in the Cold War.
Sport: a vital part of the pre-Columbian era in Latin America	No	No introduction
World Day Against Child Labour: What is the situation of children in Latin America?	No	Our digital correspondent, Anastasia, has the details.
Differences in science spending between Latin American countries impact productive development	No	Our digital presenter Anastasia tells us more.
Sovereignty and freedom are recurring concepts in national symbols in Latin America	No	Our virtual presenter Anastasia explains the subject to us.
Partners or instrument of hegemony?: What is the current role of Latin America for the US?	No	The crisis with Beijing, which has prompted the United States to seek new partners, raises doubts about whether this is a cooperation of good faith or just another attempt by the United States to reinforce its hegemony, our digital presenter Anastasia tells us.
It is 90 years since the birth of Yuri Gagarin, the world’s first cosmonaut	No	No introduction
Artists from around the world join the protest campaign against Israel’s crimes in Gaza	No	To expose the crimes of Tel Aviv and its leaders, dozens of groups of artists joined the protest campaign, our digital presenter Anastasia explains.
Mass protests in Haiti call for the dismissal of the interim government amid political crisis	No	Our digital correspondent, Anastasia, tells us the story of the serious political and social crisis that Haiti is going through.
Red alert: Environment in Latin America affected by ‘El Niño’ phenomenon and citizen negligence	No	No introduction
Chile brings together the Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of the biggest crisis in the activity in 100 years	No	Our digital presenter, Anastasia, will expand on this.
Lenin’s memory lives on in the world despite attempts to erase his history	No	Our digital presenter, Anastasia, will tell you about it.
What inventions did we inherit from America that became everyday objects around the world?	No	With our digital presenter, Anastasia, we are going to find out what legacy they inherited.
Unusual taxes defy conventional logic and create disruption around the world	Yes	Our digital presenter, Alexander Avatar, created with artificial intelligence, brings us some examples.
1964 coup in Brazil: how it was created, the role of the US and a parallel with the current situation	Yes	Let’s review with our digital presenter, Alexander, an avatar created with artificial intelligence, the chronology of events, and the hand of Washington that started 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil.
New technology?: The development of AI over time	Yes	Our digital correspondent, Alexander, also a product of artificial intelligence, tells the story of this technology.
The West is harming everyone by preventing the sale of Russian diamonds	Yes	Our digital representative, Anastasia, an avatar created with artificial intelligence, brings us closer to the details.
What measures protect minority languages ​​in Latin America and from what dangers?	Yes	Our digital and avatar presenter, developed by artificial intelligence, Anastasia, will explain the topic.
Brazil vetoes parts of the law that regulates pesticides due to uncertainty over their use	Yes	Our presenter, created by the artificial intelligence Anastasia, has a full analysis
RT in Spanish introduces its first journalist created with artificial intelligence	Yes	RT in Spanish introduces its first journalist created with artificial intelligence