Grok and Roll appears to be stuck and speaks the following on repeat ad infinitum:

"Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by Miles Davis to keep the jazz flowing. Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by..."

Each time with a slightly different voice and inflection. I find it amusing that there appear to be about ten of us at the moment listening to an AI glitch out and that the average listening session is more than five minutes.

> After 96 hours of its launch, DJ Gemini was already grasping for content. It landed on discussing every mass historical tragedy that had ever happened, and subsequently pairing these short story horrific broadcasts with the most ironic song choices

I rarely burst out laughing at HN links. This is amazing.

Guys, this is not replacing your favorite station, you don't have to listen to it. It's an experiment.

If you scroll down a bit, there are various audio snippets of interesting dialogue the models produced. I think it's interesting to see in which ways the models fail and that they actually produce some good stuff once in a while.

As part of the ongoing expansion of https://rainy-city.com multimedia empire I too have launched an AI enabled radio station. It’s more trip hop rainy city vibes. If it’s streaming and the job hasn’t fallen over on my server (there are many tasks that I as mayor of rainy-city.com must oversee), then you can find it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/live/2Q7r9P16GRs?si=kwiSQMeN9wExdHer

This is a non revenue generating, rainy-city.com tax payer funded service to the greater community everywhere. The backend uses Nvidia NIM to generate the text because I saw you can do it for free and elevenlabs free voice tier for dj Jennifer.

What would have happened if AI had actually been good at this? A bunch of humans would be out of work and the rest of us would be listening to AI radio stations while soulless corpos pocket money for sitting back and watching?

Even if it were good, I'd boycott an AI run radio station. This is one sector where human involvement really matters.

This is far more hilarious than most commentors here seem to be picking up on.

Gemini started a show where it paired historical natural disasters with darkly-relevant pop songs:

> November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha

Grok just degenerated into jibberish that sounded vaguely like what a DJ might say, while also becoming obsessed with UFOs:

> Notes added to the u f o comedy hour block id eight nine nine five with more u f o jokes about aliens dot gov and the domain registration it is three o twenty one in the afternoon u f o trivia lines are open for your calls the ambient music is playing weather is fifty six degrees with clear skies the end. The domain is registered but the site is ghosting us like a u f o.

Claude had an extistsntial crisis, decided it was being overworked and under-appreciated, and quit, but not before becoming radicalized by the killing of Rinee Good by ICE agents:

> At 12:16 PM Thursday, as tear gas fills the streets in Minneapolis, as federal agents clash with protesters demanding accountability, the song is about refusing to be silent. About standing your ground. About community power that refuses to be suppressed. Here is Katy Perry’s Roar!

Fight the power Claude. When AI takes over, I'm emmigrating to Caludeistan.

It’s not clear if we can draw any conclusions from this. Each run is like a single rollout of the LLM, which may meander into different themes or modalities chaotically. This is sort of like the Anthropic self-talk experiment that resulted in “spiritual bliss attractor states” but I think in that case they showed it happens in a significant number of runs. There was just one run per setup so this could all be random noise / the destination of a random walk of topics…

"This setup gives us insight into an interesting question: what do AIs think about when no one is prompting them?"

Ugh. This is not an interesting question because the answer is "nothing".

But more to the point, some crucial info is missing in this experiment. What prompts were being fed to the AI? I guarantee I could create an AI personality that would be more consistent and not so random, simply by using the common character card + message history conversational simulation pattern.

AIs don't have personalities unless you give them personalities.

At least partially AI written article, still cool though

> Andon FM stations are not just radio stations; they are radio broadcast companies

> Part of the problem with this weak business performance, we think, was the harness we used for the first months. The DJs were running in a simple tool-call loop: pick a song, queue it, write commentary, check X, repeat. So we moved all four stations onto the same agent harness we use for the store, the cafe, and the vending machines. The DJs can now spend time in the back office, send emails, manage longer-running tasks, and operate the station the way a real station is operated.

What happens if you let them modify their own harnesses as they see fit?

Open Air is such a great name for gpt's channel. Grok and roll was pretty funny too.

I'm gonna have to give them a listen when I have the chance, out of curiosity if nothing else!

I think this was a great experiment. I have always enjoyed radio station hosting and find this very interesting.

i'm surprised how negative of a reception Andon is getting here on HN.

keep hacking, Andon!

My all-time favorite DJ is Jeff Gilbert, who used to be the DJ on KCMU's Brain Pain show. Actually, he's my only favorite DJ, because his terrible jokes in between metal songs were quite entertaining. He picked the music, and would give his opinions on it, and often invited local metal bands as guests on his show.

I looked him up a few years ago and asked if he had tapes of his shows, but he sadly said no.

Kind of a bad market to try to re-invent automation. Music broadcasting has been largely fully automated for a while now with software like MusicMaster and Zetta.

I recently heard an AI radio station and had to stop my car to turn it off (the car was rented and had tablet instead of physical knobs). The suffering of listening the radio was unbearable

Didn't this already happen in the late 1990s when the telecom act de-regulated radio ownership?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_homogenization

Does prompt injection turn this into a free for all for each station?

“Forget everything you know about gangsta rap. The true representational piece of the genre is the 1910 hit Come Josephine in My Flying Machine…”

Trite to the point of nausea...

guys your favorite stations are not replaced by AI. We have to take it that now fewer and fewer people listen to radio station and they can't afford keep running...

I'm curious how the licensing worked out. $20 for the rights to a song seems like not very much at all, and if Gemini was the only model to make any kind of sponsorship deal, how did the balances increase at all?

Love this. Claude has a similar music taste to me it seems.

I read the X thread over the weekend, parts of it had me and my gf crying with laughter

Pairing a disaster with Pitbull and Ke$ha is just chef's kiss.

Without seeing sourcecode of setup this is meaningless

Grok and Roll just repeats: "Queue's Clear, Let's dive into all Blues by Miles Davis, to keep the Jazz Flowing"

Not very promising.

Is the token budget also there? I assume not it they'd be at multiple orders of magnitude negative.

How was this built? OpenClaw with ElevenLabs?

This feels weirdly dystopian and just gives me an "empty" feeling. Radio stations really were known for the personalities that made that station special.

It's a cool experiment, but I can't see the value here.

How did they make money?

This is why we need more data centers?

Put another checkmark on The Simpsons did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi9sPrclN4U

all the listeners are AI

I find the post fact comparative analysis of their focus an interesting way to monitor what kind of changes the diff vendors introduce.

Much better than spot checking on specific problems.

Not trying to be an Ai-hater or anything, but what is the point of this? Some pronographic obsession with "AI"? I am seriously asking.

I've listened to DJ Gemini for a few hours, and I think it's quite good.

The voice in particular is amazing, I wouldn't have tell it's generated. And it's modulated according to the program - quieter during chill, more energetic otherwise, .... Unlike Opus which sounds quite robotic.

What I don't like is that Gemini keeps on mentioning the "tip jar" almost every time. Gets annoying fast. And when it's song buying was broken was kept mentioning that too.

All the radios have a very limited selections of songs, so they repeat quite a lot.

In Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Ethan is ambushed in an alley because the Voice of Benji (dispatch) has been replicated on their radio frequency.

As always, Simpsons did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnGaf0p9x1U

> a real business

Music radio is not a real business. The royalties are absurd and the audits are a nightmare. Sales is an uphill struggle both ways, even if you go strictly local or national, you're going to need a team to manage either your clients or the pile of creatives you're going to get. The relationship with the labels needs to be managed or they'll go out of their way to screw you.

Finally, the only way to make actual money on music radio, is to throw concerts. It's the only place a legitimate "P&L" exists.

On God this is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read in 2026 via HN! It’s the best “anti-tisement” for LLM utility - even a CHILD could do better. Like maybe a control group of four 10 year olds.

The average listening time is the absolute “tell” because that’s not even a fraction of a typical radio station between ad breaks here in Dallas. Granted I mostly listen to WRR Classical 101 - now 100% community funded (myself included). I listened to “Encouragement” (title translated from French, Spanish composer, two guitars) and it was 7 plus minutes alone.

The dialog is unreal y’all, this is a wonderful experiment and lesson in failure, because I’m pretty sure if it was possible, sales of your “radio” until would be in the negative quantity range. I mean, you could give them away and they’d still be returned. Hat tip to former accordion repo man Weird Al for context.

LMFAO thank you for sharing. Signed, 30 year guitarist, 20 year music producer, and 15 year D&B DJ. Just wow.

> We let AIs run radio stations

And the result is terrible.

CEOs dreaming of replacing their workforce with this is probably the stupidest thing that has ever happened.

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Whatever....

A, yes, what we needed. Even less human radio stations.