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Artificial intelligence has made movies and music, and now it also has its own TV channel on popular streaming platform, the Roku Channel (aff).
Roku did not publicly announce the addition of Fairground AI Creator TV â fully AI-generated content, 24/7, for free â on its streaming platform. Instead, Cord Cutters News was the first to report its inclusion in Roku's lineup.
But if the online backlash is any indication, viewers might be inclined to change the channel.
“Roku is giving the masses what they never asked for: an unending conveyor belt of AI slop,” wrote Frank Landymore of Futurism, a science and technology news website.
Bradly Shankar of MobileSyrup, a Canadian tech news website, was just as critical.
“[Roku's] a nice option to have in this oversaturated and increasingly expensive streaming market. But enshittification comes for us all, and Roku is sadly no exception.”
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Fairground AI is a FAST channel, meaning a free, ad-supported streaming television.Â
There are about 200 FAST channels available on the Roku Channel (aff) in Canada, though Fairground AI is not currently one of them. The company has not said whether there are plans to bring the channel to Canada.
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