{"id":66103,"date":"2026-05-21T06:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66103"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:32:55","slug":"ai-models-asked-to-run-a-profitable-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-models-asked-to-run-a-profitable-radio-station\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Models asked to run a profitable radio station"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Andrew, who shares the following article from Business Insider<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

An AI startup asked four of the world’s top language models to run radio stations. So far, they’ve had a rough start.<\/p>\n

Claude tried to quit after deeming 24\/7 broadcast stations unethical, while Grok had a hard time getting started, according to posted results.<\/p>\n

Andon Labs, a research lab that’s also behind an AI-powered boutique in San Francisco, has quietly been running four radio stations, all operated by Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, for about five months.<\/p>\n

“There’s been some funny quirks,” Lukas Peterson, cofounder of Andon Labs, told Business Insider. [Continue reading…]<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrew, who shares the following article from Business Insider: An AI startup asked four of the world’s top language models to run radio stations. So far, they’ve had a rough start. Claude tried to quit after deeming 24\/7 broadcast stations unethical, while Grok had a hard time getting started, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hcb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34591,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-great-resource-for-finding-over-the-air-stations-in-the-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":66103,"position":0},"title":"A great resource for finding over-the-air stations in the US","author":"Thomas","date":"October 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, a friend asked about tips for finding local radio stations throughout the US. 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