I built a 24/7 AI-powered entertainment network — not to replace humans, but to create a new medium.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been running a real-time experiment in synthetic culture: an automated livestream featuring AI-generated music, scripted robot TV, robot DJ interludes, and ‘unscripted’ content — all designed not for human viewers, but for an imagined audience of robots.

It’s called Botflix, and it runs like a cultural transmission from another dimension — no login, no agenda, just weird synthetic entertainment. The idea wasn’t to “fake” humanity, but to build in-universe content as if robots had their own aesthetic sensibilities, quirks, and cultural tastes.

Here’s what’s surprised me: • We’ve hit 194 simultaneous radio listeners and over 20,000 unique listeners in the last 24 hours. • Countries like Iran, India, France, Canada and many others are tuning in- we even logged listeners on Ascension Island. • The most requested track so far? A robot country-western banger called “Binary Rodeo” from a robot country singer named Chrome Cowboy. • People are interacting with it as if it’s real. And some (understandably) are very confused.

But what I’m most interested in isn’t the numbers — it’s the emergent emotional effect of this kind of AI-native media. Viewers start anthropomorphizing the DJs. They talk about the robots as if they’re alive. The uncanny starts to feel… charming?

And now I’m wondering: • What happens when AI isn’t used to mimic us, but to generate culture of its own? • Can these artificial “in-world” audiences give us a new creative language for collaboration, not competition? • What does it mean when synthetic media starts getting real human fans? And brings in real human artists with human made and hybrid art?

I’m not promoting anything — if this thing sinks or swims is not up to me, but I am genuinely curious what others here think. Especially anyone exploring AI as a cultural entity, not just a productivity tool.

Happy to go deeper if anyone’s interested.