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‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected

Filed 1w ago · Via The Guardian · The Buffoon Desk
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

Roku has launched Fairground AI Creator TV, a free 24/7 streaming channel pulling content from roughly 100 AI creators worldwide, drawing swift condemnation from outlets like The Verge and Futurism, who compared it to eating from a trough and called it bottom-of-the-barrel slop.

The reviewer, after actually watching hours of the channel, confirms the criticism: programming lurches without scheduling logic from shrill anime to staid German bureaucratic dramas to Gladiator knockoffs, with persistent glitches including mismatched lip movement and a man's feet making hoof noises in the snow.

The appeal to executives is obvious given the vanishingly low production costs compared to a scripted series, but the reviewer found the content categorically, catastrophically awful — devoid of weight, vision, or the ability to hold anyone's attention.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
The business case for flooding a channel with algorithmic filler is transparent: it's cheaper than paying humans, and cheap wins even when it's unwatchable. That an ad for Dr. Phil provided the review's most emotionally affecting moment says everything about where this technology currently stands.
Source: Read the original at The Guardian → Scored: Quirky Dog · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0
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