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Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough
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TL;DR
- Roku has launched a 24/7 FAST channel featuring AI-generated content from the startup Fairground.
- Fairground's content is described as "short-form slop" with a lack of consistent theme or genre.
- The videos are cobbled together from machine-generated clips, lacking visual polish compared to traditionally produced content.
- Fairground emphasizes its content is for "the living room, not the feed."
- The startup pays content partners and offers them a share of revenue, but details on models and training data rights are undisclosed.