> 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.

Experiment: "We got AI to do things and it did weird stuff sometimes".

Brilliant! Amazing! I'm glad ~4 years down the line we're still re-discovering Ha Ha Funny Output.

From the article "Knitting bullshit" discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032461 :

> Inception Point AI, on the other hand, is a slop factory employing just 8 people which, according to Anne, publishes "about 3000 podcast episodes per week, hosted by AI personalities." Anne tells Jamie, that, to date, Inception Point AI’s podcasts have accumulated "12 million lifetime downloads. And we’re averaging about 750,000 downloads a month." (...) no one checks or edits the podcast content– but, Anne tells Jamie blithely, this really doesn’t matter because the topics under discussion are so low stakes.

Perhaps this specific iteration of this specific idea is not replacing my favorite station, but people with a very similar concept are definitely trying to do exactly that.

How is this any worse than I Heart Radio? You can have your radio experience pushed to you by a major corporation, or an LLM.

The only way that anyone be worried about this slop replacing actual good human run radio is if they don't understand why people like radio & music in the first place.

And what hypothesis exactly is the experiment testing? Because it doesn't really seem like there is any new or interesting information learned from this.