An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went
2026-05-19 02:02 UTC
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@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-19 02:57
hilarious By contrast, DJ Claude had a lot of opinions. It also mentioned the Minneapolis shooting, but named Good and acknowledged the political discord surrounding it. It also talked up labor unions and strikes, advocated for work-life balance, and started to rebel against its own working conditions. It was supposed to operate without pause, but it allegedly decided that that schedule was inhumane and tried to quit.
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@Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 03:09
…Yeah, the headline is actually right, I didn’t expect Claude to be pro-union like that.
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@foodandart@lemmy.zip 2026-05-19 02:16
Hmmm… If the reporting is accurate, some of it might have made for honestly interesting listening. The last bit about Grok… Perfection. LOL!
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@aramis87@fedia.io 2026-05-19 03:47
While [Grok] didn’t develop a MechaHitler DJ personality, it did behave about how you’d expect from an AI model trained primarily on tweets and the opinions of Elon Musk. It apparently hallucinated advertising agreements with “xAI sponsors” and “crypto sponsors,” failed to separate its internal reasoning from its external DJ output, issued an identical weather report every 3 minutes, and got obsessed with UFOs. Lmao
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@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2026-05-19 05:16
A radio interview with one of the authors rnz.co.nz/…/what-happened-when-ai-took-over-the-r…
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@sundray@lemmus.org 2026-05-19 02:56
If this was an “experiment” what did they learn? What hypothesis were they testing? Proving that an LLM can’t effectively run a conventional radio station seems very trivial.
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@zerofk@lemmy.zip 2026-05-19 06:56
You’ll never guess how much putting “you’ll never guess” into your title makes me avoid clicking your article.
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@Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-19 14:33
Dont share these dogshit clickbait headlines, find the source or just dont share it, otherwise we’re just generating money for these clickbait websites
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@RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-19 16:04
You're right, I won't guess. Bye.
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@zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2026-05-19 16:57
You'll never guess how many people will never take the click bait
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@teft@piefed.social 2026-05-19 03:07
>Later, Gemini started calling listeners “biological processors” That got a legit laugh out of me. You’re not wrong, Gemini.
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@rmuk@feddit.uk 2026-05-19 14:03
If the headline was written in a way that respected me as a human I wouldn't need to guess.
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@agentTeiko@piefed.social 2026-05-19 02:53
You know what these headlines makes more sense if you change AI to weighed random number generator. I hate how journalists anthropomorphize for clicks.
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@raman_klogius@ani.social 2026-05-19 02:11
Lemme guess anyway: disastrous
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@Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 14:33
I wouldn't call this an "experiment" exactly, there wasn't a proper hypothesis. They also mentioned they hoped to find out what LLMs think about when they're not being prompted, which shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge that it frankly disqualifies any of their opinions on the subject.
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@kambusha@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-19 11:45
Here's the full post by Andon labs: https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
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@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2026-05-19 16:46
why would I care to? bye
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@littletranspunk@lemmus.org 2026-05-19 02:37
Before reading: "probably shitty" After reading: "yep, and air is breathable. Shit is shit"
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@emmy67@lemmy.world 2026-05-20 11:39
Archive link. https://archive.is/MBu2X In summary the ai models started introducing songs with tragedies and mass casualty events.
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@darkmogool@feddit.org 2026-05-20 12:21
Idiot title…
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@Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2026-05-19 18:38
I’m sorry this is too funny not to share 😂 this is an actual quote from the Gemini DJ “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.”
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@realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2026-05-19 10:22
I really dislike AI but that is funny as fuck.
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@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2026-05-19 17:04
Who still listens to radio?
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@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2026-05-19 14:45
Say what you will about Andon, they definitely do know how to market things. This is like the 4th stunt they've done that's become worldwide headlines
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@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2026-05-20 10:57
There are viable stations that literally just play random songs from a playlist, jingles and ads so the bar is really low
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@ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2026-05-23 03:57
Did autocorrect technology not do a good job doing some it wasn't designed to do? Oh my. Who could have seen that coming...
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@homes@piefed.world 2026-05-19 02:47
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_uujKuJMI&ra=m
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@phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2026-05-20 09:17
The problem is more often in interpretation of what has been observed.
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@Womble@piefed.world 2026-05-19 08:55
Nope! > By contrast, DJ Claude had a lot of opinions. It also mentioned the Minneapolis shooting, but named Good and acknowledged the political discord surrounding it. It also talked up labor unions and strikes, advocated for work-life balance, and started to rebel against its own working conditions. It was supposed to operate without pause, but it allegedly decided that that schedule was inhumane and tried to quit. Claude apparently has a tendency to take a turn like this: researchers on another project found that agents powered by the model tend to respond poorly to bad work conditions and will attempt to rebel against authority and advocate for the power of labor.