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Comment by ghshephard

14 hours ago

99.9? There are roughly 3mm podcasts out there right now - I listen, regularly, to about 10 over a year (in any given week maybe 3-4). I'm therefore ignoring 2,999,990 or 99.9997% of podcast. I definitely agree with you that this isn't a problem.

(Also - ironically, one of the podcast out of those 10 that I listen to regularly - it's the Deep Dive on AI. A NotebookLM production! )

It could poison the well - make it hard for people to find new good podcasts, and reduce discovery and revenue. Also they could fragment our society even more, disconnect people from people. Doesn't seem worth the risk.

If people want to listen to AI generated podcasts, they can just make them themselves. They don't need publishing on a platform alongside human-made podcasts. If I was Apple, who ultimately control curation of podcasts, then I'd prevent them. After all, Apple Intelligence will soon do as good a job of making your custom podcast if that's what you want.

  • How are all of the 99.99% podcasts that currently are not worth listening to not already poisoning the well? If the current ranking algorithms work, I don't see why it can't work with more podcasts, AI or not.

    • Maybe the current ones aren't trying to poison the well.

      As an exception, consider Infowars. Now imagine someone 10 times smarter, maybe even with no monetary goals.