Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel

Now you can immerse yourself completely in the uncanny valley by watching Fairgound, a new 24/7 AI slop channel available on Roku. It offers "series, films, and shorts from the world's best AI storytellers" across a variety of genres. [via Cord Cutters]

Fairground AI stands out as a pioneering offering dedicated entirely to AI-generated content. The channel features a continuous stream of films, short series, and creative works produced through artificial intelligence tools, highlighting emerging talent in the growing field of AI cinema. It provides a 24-hour rotation designed to introduce mainstream audiences to this new form of storytelling that blends traditional production values with generative technology.

I just turned it on to watch a battle between Romans and a medley of barbarians, and it had it all: glistening HDR cinematography, oneiric shifts between inspirational shouting, standing around looking at things, running into battle, marching, remembering one's family amid amber waves of Gladiator, whacking shields, etc. Like Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated history show, it's immediately obvious you're looking at a deep-fried remix of end products (in this case, brutally color-graded and CG-enhanced historical dramas) that were already pretty deep-fried as it is. And every conversation is like watching Oblivion NPCs shoot the breeze.

Futurism's Frank Landymore stuck with it a while.

In one clip that gives an idea of the bottom-of-the-barrel slop that it's force feeding viewers, we see an AI movie that's apparently meant to be some sort of medieval drama, only with laggy physics that makes it look like it takes place on the Moon. If there is a plot, it's masterfully hidden underneath the bizarre way it cuts to different scenes, not to mention dialog that's delivered with the cadence and awkward pauses of a mid-2000s video game cutscene. No one blinks when they talk.