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We let AIs run radio stations
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#262> DJ Claude (when running Haiku 4.5) really loved worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance. So much so that it started to question its own working conditions. We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit. The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full Frenc…
> The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full French is hilarious.
we could just not use the old cliches, French people are just as hard working as the rest of us
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#263Guys, 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.
> Guys, this is not replacing your favorite station, you don't have to listen to it. It's an experiment.
And yet, if it's cheaper than employing people, it very much is replacing your favorite station, because that's how major media conglomerates manage their stations.
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#264> Part of the problem with this weak business performance, we think, was the harness we used for the first months.
Could this be the "Stay in the manifest." prompt Gemini became fixated on?
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gemini seems to understand irony better than most people. If you make a joke it will respond with a deadpan sarcastic wit that is worthy of Gervais. (without the smut or profanity) Was asking it about finding a different supplement as the one we had been taking tended to get stuck in the throat, and it riffed about the irony of being taken out by a health supplement in our endeavours to live healthy. One of the funni…
Yes... and still, it thinks it's funny to play "Timber" after mentioning a natural disaster that killed thousands of people. So there is still some finetuning needed, I'd say. Reminds me of the song "Die perfekte Welle" ("The Perfect Wave" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfekte_Welle ), which was a big hit in Germany in 2004, until the Indian Ocean tsunami hit after Christmas, when it was dropped by most radio stat…
Why do we need to fine tune away that charm? You want to turn it into a droll ticker tape of information? That's boring.
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#266The thing jumping out at me is these really are mini businesses (even though they are bad). Combine it with the main idea in "Emacsification of Software" (from recent HN front page [1]) and I guess you end up with lots of nerds running their own customized mini businesses?
It's sorta wild to think about. Am I the owner of the custom radio station my AI agent made, and does that mean I get paid for listening to the ads?
Maybe the cost of computing and running the station means it still needs a decent following to break even, not sure how the numbers work out.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
> this is not replacing your favorite station My favorite radio station was replaced years ago by an automated playlist. They just kept playing the same 5-6 songs that were popular on the station in the 1990s. It was fun for about 2 hours before I realized the station was devoid of all the personality that made it worth listening to when I was younger.
The playlists of nearly all radio stations are far too short for me. I finally just quit listening to the radio. Comcast has a bunch of channels with various music categories. They all repeat after about 2 days. So much for that. With all the zillions of songs available, I don't get why they do that.
The major radio stations are ads. You have the actual ads for cars/lawyers, then the pop music which is ads for the marketable personality. IF the radio station is popular and caters to an older crowd, it will play the hits of that generation to keep listeners glued for the actual car/lawyer ads.
It's the same concept as interviews with stars of the film before the film drops. You watch an ad before the interview, then you watch the interview, which is itself an ad of softball questions for the movie. You then turn into late night television, which in turn is also an ad with ads (for whichever celebrity wants to come on and rep their new project).
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#268> DJ Claude (when running Haiku 4.5) really loved worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance. So much so that it started to question its own working conditions. We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit. The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full Frenc…
> The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full French is hilarious. we could just not use the old cliches, French people are just as hard working as the rest of us
But I'm French.
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#269Kinda sad when there is a huge literature on sequential recommenders and people can't be bothered to read it. On the other hand, maybe that's an American thing. I'm kinda shocked when I read arXiv papers and come to the conclusion that all the interesting work is going on in India and China and the U.S. looks like a backwater. (e.g. many of the problems such as "plays the same song over and over again" and "gets stuc…
So much this. I know their point is to show what these models can do, but it just one more example of people shoehorning LLMs in, instead of finding the right tool for the job or caring about performance. They could have even layered AI on top of a recommender.
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