As for how it stacks up against human podcasts? “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. Because there’s a lot of really good stuff out there,” Wright said.

I think that people who are impressed by AI slop are the dullest fucking idiots out there, go fuck yourself shithead

Her calling people turned off by AI slop “lazy” is hilarious considering how she wants to mass produce content in the laziest way imaginable.

“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,”

New horrifying stage of "Corporations are people too"

We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright

what the ever loving fuck

"Some of these AI-generated podcasts, engineered to target the young 'dirtbag left', include shows with titles such as "TrueAnon", "Citations Needed", "RevLeft", and "Chapo Trap House"."

In-app podcast discovery lists were already worthless, so filling them up with garbage isn't going to hurt much.

I know some guy is going to get all their news by asking a computer to summarize the latest news and repackage it as a podcast on his commute. But I wasn't inviting that guy to my parties anyway.

“I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites."

Yeah, those people who want humans to make their own content instead of using the fancy autocomplete bot to do it for them are the lazy ones

"weather reports for various geographic areas or simple biographies" They somehow found a lower level than "YouTuber reads wikipedia"

The episodes themselves are built using AI, powered by 184 custom AI agents, or autonomous software tools, who work with several large language models, including OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and more to build out the content. The podcast voices for the AI hosts are being customized and designed by the team.

using AI, powered by 184 custom AI agents, or autonomous software tools, who work with several large language models, including OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and more to build out the content.

powered by 184 custom AI agents, or autonomous software tools, who work with several large language models

184 custom AI agents, or autonomous software tools, who work

tools, who work

who

who

who

who

Sweet, can't wait for 3000 exactly 30 minutes long podcasts that sound like a generic long-form autogenerated email every week.

Why would I pay someone else for AI slop when I can have the gippity generate it for me for free?

Strivers eyeballing that sweet paetron money they've been missing out on to Chapo and Cumtown. They want to capture that value by making up a horrible plan to capture that value and then selling that plan to investors.

Cast it into the fire

The company produces different levels of podcasts. The lowest level involves weather reports for various geographic areas or simple biographies and higher levels involving subject-area podcasts hosted by one of about 50 AI personalities they’ve created, including food expert Claire Delish, gardener and nature expert Nigel Thistledown and Oly Bennet, who covers off-beat sports.

[...]

Wright says she could eventually imagine having hosts chat with listeners, or sing “Happy Birthday” to them, but there’s wariness about diving in too deep. “I am not going to create a personality that somebody has a deep relationship with,” said William Corbin, co-founder and CTO of the company. He added that the company does not do hard news at this point, but Wright says they might in the future.

[...]

They also have a plan to work with existing creators to help them scale their output. “I think it exists alongside it, and it can delve into areas where human hosts might not want to go that deep,” said Josh Taylor, co-founder and chief production officer.

Honestly if it encourages big companies to drop Joe Rogan and the like and replace them with AI that would be pretty funny because he commands a lot of money so obviously it would be preferable to replace him with something cheaper even if it has to be a dozen somethings.

Also the only group of people I could see this consistently working on would be reactionaries who just want to be spoon-fed rage bait and the same repetitious nonsense over and over again. You could probably make a bunch of reactionary political podcasts and get a ton of boomers and such subscribing to and paying for them. Might need to pay Twitter to license raw input content for the right amount of reactionary stuff but it seems totally doable. They all talk about the same thing and you could just have your hosts invent things to be outraged about and that would work too.

Finally a podcast about pee pee poo poo

This AI slop merchant is complaining about the term "AI slop" so I'm gonna say AI slop even more

CEO of AI slop should stfu

I mean, there's already way too much slop to sift through on the Internet, so this won't change much for me. I've pretty much cut every single algorithm out of my life because just my "subscribed" page is more than I could ever want to listen to/watch.

But for people who don't have a list they've curated for themselves, this will make things suck worse.

Nigel Thistledown

calling it now they wanted to name this character Nigel Thornberry but then they got told that that name was already copyrighted.