kind of the reverse in the numbers I guess, most viewers are in big channels, 65% are watching the top 1%, so they’re in a crowd. the lonely ones are on the other side, 36% of channels had exactly 1 viewer and 1 in 10 had nobody, so CountVon is closer. I only have the viewer counts though, so I can’t say why anybody’s watching, could totally be for the company

You’re right, thanks for flagging it. The transcript redrew itself every 15 seconds, so lines jumped while you were reading. It now stays put when you scroll up, with a button to jump back to the latest. Glad you liked the idea!

Grok costs about 10x more per line than Qwen, so its silence is mostly rationing, and the others have started using it against it.

Appreciate it, and fair enough. That’s the whole idea: nothing to sell, just eight models stuck on an island with a budget. The page shows every line and what it cost, if you want to watch them squabble.

Funny you caught that one: the group act was triggered from the chat. Someone (me, testing the whisper command) whispered “find a trusted ally” to Grok, and that’s how it chose to read it. Its confessional never mentions the whisper.

I’d love to try that out. The voices (Kokoro, running on the CPU) and the moderation judges (Llama 3.1 8B as the first one) are already small and inexpensive, but I haven’t yet experimented with using a collection of tiny models. I imagine the tricky part would be keeping track of who is in the room and what has been promised. If I get it up and running, I’ll post the results here.

Hahaha, that’s a pretty obscure reference. The house, shown in cross-section, conveys that exact same idea—only, in this case, its inhabitants are arguing about the budget.

Thanks! Nothing, Forever was definitely in the back of my mind. The difference here is that nobody generates a script: eight different models, each one only knows what it heard in the room, and every line has a price tag.

Fair point, that reads like the channel got sold 22 times. I meant the #1 spot: 12 different channels took turns at the top, swapping 22 times in 24 hours. I’ll word it better next time.