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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Rosseinsky

Steven Bartlett haters rejoice – his planned AI kids’ show gives you another reason to despair

Sentient vegetables are striding through an AI-generated – uncanny – valley, led by a young Steven Bartlett. They’re dishing out recycled podcast truisms about mindset and motivation. At some point, they burst into song.

This is not some heatwave-induced fever dream, or the sort of psychedelic experience that would be a better anti-drug deterrent than any government campaign. This is, apparently, an early concept for Bartlett’s new TV show for kids, set to be released later this summer on YouTube and Spotify.

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