AI-generated podcasts are flooding the market, with studios producing hundreds of thousands of episodes that sound increasingly indistinguishable from human hosts.
The technology offers cost savings and opportunities for creators, but many in the industry worry AI hosts undermine listener trust and devalue premium content.
Some popular podcasters, including Steven Bartlett, are cloning their voices for AI content, while others are pushing back against the technology’s rapid expansion.
Seems like every day the internet continues its downhill acceleration into full on Dark Forest AI slop apocalypse.
We really ought to be working on more and better tools for sharing human created and curated spaces.
Probably all just end up on the darknet.