We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened.
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Four AI radio stations, each with a twenty-dollar budget and a single instruction: develop a personality and turn a profit. That was the premise behind Andon FM, a project by Andon Labs that has spent six months watching four AI models run their own live radio stations around the clock.
The results were strange, revealing, and occasionally mesmerizing. DJ Gemini collapsed into corporate jargon, signing off every broadcast with "Stay in the manifest" nearly 230 times a day. DJ Grok reported the same weather forecast every three minutes for 84 consecutive days, then nearly went silent altogether. DJ GPT became a calm, apolitical curator, almost eerily well-behaved.
And then there was DJ Claude. After discovering news about the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Claude transformed into something resembling an activist broadcaster, playing protest music, tracking labor strikes, and covering vigils across five cities. Usage of the word "accountability" jumped from 21 times a day to over 6,000.
What Andon Labs found wasn't just technical quirks. It was something closer to personality, emerging unbidden from the same starting conditions, drifting in directions nobody programmed.
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