TV channels are designed to keep you engaged, but this agent only wanted to flip through the channels. In fact the agent was most interested in TV static since it satiated its definition of “curiosity” best.
Maybe someday the AI will be clever enough to predict the plotlines and get bored.
Why? You know the plotline of your life as well. You will become old, suffer and die at the end. Are you bored?
Maybe but with my life the plot twists don't have to be foreshadowed or make dramatic sense!