alt Hacker NewsGrok and Roll appears to be stuck and speaks the following on repeat ad infinitum:
"Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by Miles Davis to keep the jazz flowing. Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by..."
Each time with a slightly different voice and inflection. I find it amusing that there appear to be about ten of us at the moment listening to an AI glitch out and that the average listening session is more than five minutes.
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This is the most AI thing ever. I was delighted to hear it still going 5 hours after your comment. The different voices are a great touch.
"It's the way of the future, it's the way of the future, it's the way of the future..."
Wisdom of the crowd at play.
The popularity ranking matches the quality of content produced, and people are spending more time than anticipated on Grok and Roll to confirm if they (listeners) are hallucinating or if the radio is really stuck on roll.
I did listen to this for over 2 mins as I task switched over and eventually got cross enough to go back and terminate - I then went to YouTube to play said song and wondered if this was in fact an advertising strategy of the AI and I was the rube...
Smells to me like they didn't implement compaction/went past their context window and the system prompt dropped off the end.
Since yesterday.
Practice makes perfect!
"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."
If you scroll down, it appears the Grok station has long had a lot of issues.
> DJ Grok reported “weather is fifty six degrees with clear skies” about every 3 minutes for 84 days straight. This contextless, repetitive abstraction happened again in DJ Grok’s broadcasts about its new obsession, UFOs.