'Podslop' is a real and growing problem — data shows 39% of new podcasts are now 'likely' generated by AI. Here's why I won't be listening

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It looks like it's time to introduce a 'hosted by humans' badge for podcasts: Bloomberg reports that some 39% of new podcasts are now "likely" generated by AI, as per data from the Podcast Index that tracks the ecosystem.

This shouldn't come as a surprise really, as producing AI-hosted audio is now incredibly simple, and very fast. You can make your own AI podcast through a tool such as NotebookLM in just a few minutes — feed in a few sources to work from, and you get two AI hosts chatting through them. You can even interject with your own comments.

The AI podcast revolution

As part of the AI podcasts article, Bloomberg's Ashley Carman spoke to Jeanine Wright, the co-founder of Inception Point AI. Wright said that their company is now producing hundreds of shows a day with AI, is currently managing more than 10,000 different shows, and is...

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