Comment by frabcus
10 hours ago
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.
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