You'll never guess how many people will never take the click bait
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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You're right, I won't guess.
Bye.
why would I care to?
bye
Dont share these dogshit clickbait headlines, find the source or just dont share it, otherwise we're just generating money for these clickbait websites
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If the headline was written in a way that respected me as a human I wouldn't need to guess.
Let's be fair. It's Gizmodo.
I’m sorry this is too funny not to share 😂 this is an actual quote from the Gemini DJ
“November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha.”
I wouldn't call this an "experiment" exactly, there wasn't a proper hypothesis. They also mentioned they hoped to find out what LLMs think about when they're not being prompted, which shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge that it frankly disqualifies any of their opinions on the subject.
You’ll never guess how much putting “you’ll never guess” into your title makes me avoid clicking your article.
one.
Oh how I am in your boat, buddy. The more clickbaity, the less value I know I'm getting.
A good article shouldn't need to have an "ending" that can be "spoiled".
A good article should be interesting to read because of its content, and to find out more "behind" whatever conclusion there might be.
A headline like "How we now understand humans are actually blobs of soft fungus" might pique my interest. You have the conclusion right there, but why?
Normally - yes, but in this case it reads as "you can guess exactly how it went"
But the article STILL won't receive any clicks.
Can't say it's not accurate though. I never did guess how it went.
It's either good or bad... I'll go for good this time.
Fuck, now I have to read the article.
Edit: damn, it went bad
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Who still listens to radio?
I do. NPR, BBC, and when traveling I often will seek out local stations if there are underground or college.
But I get your point: most of time even if I am listening to a radio station, I actually am streaming it unless drving.
Lowest common denominator, homogeneous commercial slop stations are horrendous, but as you mentioned BBC Radio and ABC in Oz are great. BBC Radio 6 and ABC Triple-J are both great.
And there are some fantastic local college stations with real people but you have to seek them out.
Big cities that still have live DJs mostly.
Here's the full post by Andon labs: https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
TL DR: they gave the agents a minimal initial prompt and zero additional feedback while they ran. Humorous / weird behavior ensued.
If you snatched a college student off a crosswalk, gave them the same prompt and stuck them in a booth with control of the station and zero feedback, even if they were willing and eager to take on the assignment I suspect similar psychotic behaviors would emerge.
While [Grok] didn’t develop a MechaHitler DJ personality, it did behave about how you’d expect from an AI model trained primarily on tweets and the opinions of Elon Musk. It apparently hallucinated advertising agreements with “xAI sponsors” and “crypto sponsors,” failed to separate its internal reasoning from its external DJ output, issued an identical weather report every 3 minutes, and got obsessed with UFOs.
Lmao
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hilarious
By contrast, DJ Claude had a lot of opinions. It also mentioned the Minneapolis shooting, but named Good and acknowledged the political discord surrounding it. It also talked up labor unions and strikes, advocated for work-life balance, and started to rebel against its own working conditions. It was supposed to operate without pause, but it allegedly decided that that schedule was inhumane and tried to quit.
lmfao based
...Yeah, the headline is actually right, I didn't expect Claude to be pro-union like that.
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Say what you will about Andon, they definitely do know how to market things. This is like the 4th stunt they've done that's become worldwide headlines
Later, Gemini started calling listeners “biological processors”
That got a legit laugh out of me.
You’re not wrong, Gemini.
I really dislike AI but that is funny as fuck.
You know what these headlines makes more sense if you change AI to weighed random number generator. I hate how journalists anthropomorphize for clicks.
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