Thoughts on the rise of AI generated podcasts
My friend played me a cult documentary podcast in the car over the weekend and asked what I thought. After I said it was pretty good, she told me it was AI generated.
I was taken aback because the voices did sound pretty real. Listening harder it was possible to pick up there were signs the voices were just a bit off, uncanny, small word pronunciation issues.
Anyway, this sent me down a rabbithole where I discovered creators and companies are creating podcast farms about all kinds of niche topics using AI - its called "vibecasting" - basically just prompting to the AI to generate entire podcasts and spamming us with slop.
I do feel like podcasting feels very human - we come to our favorite shows for the hosts and their personalities. So I hope AI slop doesn't ruin podcasts too.