The AI interprets this literally.
But at the , the first glitch occurs. Bob paints a tree. The AI decides the tree needs a friend. Then another. Within thirty seconds, the canvas is a solid brown rectangle. Bob whispers, "That’s a lot of trunks. Trunks are good. Trunks hold up the sky."
Here is everything we know about the Bob Ross AI Season 24 Workprint . According to metadata embedded in the leaked file (titled BR_S24E01_Workprint_H264.mkv ), the project was codenamed "Cabin Spark." The goal was noble on paper: to create new, meditative ASMR-painting content without digitally resurrecting Ross against his will. The reality was more complicated. bob ross ai season 24 workprint
Probably not. Bob Ross would have just called it a "happy accident"—and then scraped the canvas clean with a palette knife.
By Alex Ripley April 14, 2026
The AI was trained on 1,200 hours of the original series, plus Ross’s unscripted audio diaries. The studio claimed the model could replicate his palette knife technique, his vocal cadence, and even his specific onomatopoeia (" chissle-chissle-chissle ").
Hours after the leak, Bob Ross Inc. released a brief statement: "This was an internal R&D stress test from 2024 that was never meant for public viewing. We have deleted all model weights and reaffirm that the only true Bob Ross is the human one." The AI interprets this literally
For thirty years, the legacy of Bob Ross has remained frozen in amber: 403 episodes, one giant afro, and a mantra of “happy little accidents.” But last week, something unholy (or perhaps, unexpectedly holy) surfaced on a forgotten Internet Archive drive labeled .