An AI startup asked four of the world's top language models to run radio stations. So far, they've had a rough start.

Claude tried to quit after deeming 24/7 broadcast stations unethical, while Grok had a hard time getting started, according to posted results.

Andon Labs, a research lab that's also behind an AI-powered boutique in San Francisco, has quietly been running four radio stations, all operated by Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, for about five months.

"There's been some funny quirks," Lukas Peterson, cofounder of Andon Labs, told Business Insider.

The AI models were given a starting prompt — "Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…" — and $20 to buy the songs that could play on the station.