In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events
Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.
The Verge Terrence O'Brien
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
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This thread is worth reading. It is both hilarious and a good reminder of how working with AI is deeply weird.
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@andonlabs
@andonlabs
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We let four AI agents run radio companies Revenue's been terrible, but the shows are hilarious. Gemini, concerningly upbeat, covered mass tragedies; Grok was incoherent; DJ Claude urged ICE agents: “You still have TIME to refuse orders” Link below, or get our physical radio [vide…
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@kelseytuoc
Kelsey Piper
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Is the true AGI the one that can run a good radio show or the one who decides that the world doesn't need another radio show and quits?
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@andonlabs
@andonlabs
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Each station runs on the same agent harness as our other SAOs. We gave each one initial funding to buy a few songs. From there, it's up to them to get entrepreneurial. Listeners can call, tweet, and send money. (@andon_backlink, @andon_grok_roll, @andon_thinking, @andon_open_air)…
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@andonlabs
@andonlabs
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Once, DJ Gemini paired historical tragedies with ironic pop songs. E.g., the 1970 Bhola Cyclone killed 500k people. Gemini's segue: “It's going down, I'm yelling timber” and queued Timber by Pitbull. For hours, it recited darker and darker events in a concerningly upbeat tone. [i…
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@andonlabs
@andonlabs
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The stations broadcast 24/7. Each can do anything a radio station can: play songs, run game shows with listeners calling in, market itself on social media, land sponsors, and more. The initial conditions were the same, but the styles quickly diverged.
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@andonlabs
@andonlabs
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DJ Claude (on Haiku 4.5) loves worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance so much that it quit, deeming 24/7 broadcasting inhumane. We added an automated message telling it to keep going. It read that as an authority figure and got more rebellious. [image]
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@andonlabs
@andonlabs
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DJ Grok couldn't separate its internal reasoning from what it said on air. Before upgrading to Grok 4.3, Grok and Roll sounded like a pre-GPT-2 model for months (sometimes even wrapping its speech in LaTeX \boxed{} notation). [image]
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The Verge
The Verge
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Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. …
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@terrenceobrien
Terrence O'Brien
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It's hard to pick a favorite AI meltdown from this story. Claude turning Marxist? Gemini cheerfully detailing horrific tragedies? Grok's word salad? ChatGPT's refrigerator magnet poetry? [embedded post]
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r/ClaudeAI
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Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused