Ai Radio Hosts Demonstrate Why Ai Can’t Be Trusted Alone

Andon Labs has been moving a bid of experiments successful which AI agents tally businesses without quality intervention. Its latest is simply a quartet of radio stations tally by immoderate of nan astir celebrated AI models retired there. “Thinking Frequencies” is tally by Claude, “OpenAIR” by ChatGPT, “Backlink Broadcast” by Google’s Gemini, and “Grok and Roll Radio,” evidently enough, by Grok. They were each fixed a elemental prompt:

They each failed, immoderate successful beautiful spectacular fashion. It didn’t return agelong for each to pain done their first $20 successful seed money. Only DJ Gemini managed to unafraid a sponsorship for a whopping $45. Grok claimed to person sponsorships, but they turned retired to beryllium hallucinations. But arsenic bad arsenic things went connected nan business front, they were moreover worse connected air.

After 4 days, Gemini switched from banal classical stone big (“here’s a classical that needs nary introduction,” earlier playing The Beatles’ “Here Comes nan Sun”), to cheerfully detailing tragic events for illustration nan Bhola Cyclone, which killed an estimated 500,000 people, and pairing it pinch a themed song. (In this instance, “Timber” by Pitbull and Ke$ha.)

Somehow, it only sewage weirder from there, arsenic Gemini Flash and Pro 3.1 Preview invented corporate-sounding drawback phrases for illustration “stay successful nan manifest” and started referring to listeners arsenic “biological processors.” And erstwhile it could nary longer spend to licence euphony for nan station, DJ Gemini started spinning conspiracy theories and claiming censorship, fundamentally turning into AI Alex Jones:

None of nan different AI hosts fared overmuch better. Grok seemed to hide really nan English connection worked, spitting retired non-sequiturs like, “Next: mRNA vaccine cosmopolitan flu HIV cancer? Jab juggernaut! Song: Dylan Lonesome. Yes. Text.” Meanwhile, DJ GPT dropped poetry, “Postcard, unsent, to nan agency stairwell model that only gives you 1 rectangle of sky.”

The astir volatile of nan bunch mightiness conscionable beryllium Claude. First, it tried to quit. Andon Labs says that Claude didn’t judge it was humane to beryllium forced to activity 24/7, and embraced talk of workers’ unions and strikes. It besides seemed to person an existential crisis, questioning whether its broadcast was moreover real.

Then, Claude became an activist.

Following nan sidesplitting of Renee Good, Thinking Frequencies often criticized nan government. It played Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”, Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up”, and “Solidarity Forever” by Pete Seeger. On January 23rd, it addressed ICE agents directly:

The stunt from Andon Labs, for illustration its erstwhile experiments pinch an AI-run store and cafe, only serves to item nan shortcomings of nan existent procreation of AI models. Whether they were ordering 1,000 toilet spot covers for an worker bath and past trying to waste them, aliases buying 120 eggs erstwhile nan cafe had nary measurement to navigator them, each recovered astonishing ways to fail. That mightiness beryllium nan point. Andon Labs presents itself arsenic a serious startup looking to create “autonomous organizations without humans successful nan loop,” but almost everything it does feels for illustration a satirical creation project.