An AI TV channel that takes requests

I spent a Saturday building a TV channel that takes requests. You type something in the live chat and about forty seconds later it is on air, as a five second clip of fake alien television.

A chat message goes through OpenAI moderation, gets rewritten in the show’s style, gets moderated again, is generated by MiniMax, and the frames are moderated once more before anything reaches the broadcast. Between new clips the channel replays what it already made.

It cost $31.05 for 123 clips. MiniMax charges five cents per second of video at 480p, a rate they do not publish anywhere. Nineteen of those clips came from viewers, eight people in total, and I wrote the rest myself. Someone asked for crusaders dancing polka with Muslims and got polka-dotted blobs in a neon tavern.

Keep the process that talks to YouTube separate from everything else. A ten second gap while Auto-Stop was enabled ended my first broadcast, gave it a new video ID, and killed every link I had already posted.

The filters score policy categories, not taste. One clip came back showing recognisable Gulf Arab dress on dancing figures and passed all four moderation layers, because it is neither hate speech nor violence. I caught it by watching.

The idea is not mine. @levelsio built Infinite Slop the day before, after @rehan_shei suggested it to him. Mine is a different implementation of the same idea, and it was fun to watch the future arrive in real time.

The code is on GitHub under MIT: infinite-slop-engine. It is a one day build and I am not maintaining it.