AI slop

Roku quietly added Fairground AI Creator TV, a round-the-clock channel of AI-generated films and AI-generated advertisements, at number 300 in its live TV guide. The reviews were savage and largely deserved. But the more interesting story sits underneath the jokes: a year-old company with $4 million in seed funding secured carriage on a platform Fox has agreed to buy for $22 billion, and it did so by solving distribution rather than generation. This is a documents-first look at what Roku actually added, who the named creators and studios really are, what Fairground’s published creator agreement says about the 50% revenue share, the 120-day payment window, the $100 payment floor and the $500 liability cap, and why a platform monetising roughly three cents per streamed hour finds a zero-marginal-cost channel structurally attractive.