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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected

People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku
Roku’s Fairground AI Creator TV is television with vanishingly low production costs. You probably will not tune in, and that’s sort of the point. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The appeal of Roku is that, whatever you happen to want to watch, there will almost certainly be a live channel for it. Just want to watch Little House on the Prairie? There’s a channel for it. Just want to watch Duck Dynasty? There’s a channel for that too. Purely want to watch nothing but local news from Wisconsin? Guess what: there’s a channel for that too.

But despite this wealth, a section of the population was still to see its needs fulfilled. What about people who hate plot and vision and the sight of people speaking convincing dialogue that synchronises perfectly with the movement of their lips? What about the people who just want to watch an unyielding torrent of eerily weightless nightmare fodder? Well, good news. Roku has finally caught up.

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