Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites."
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.
filling them up with garbage isn’t going to hurt much.
Imagine 1,000,000 mini Joe Rogans ceaselessly pumping unlimited bespoke brain poison into the minds of millions (if not 10s of millions) of Americans. Seems bad.
Flood the market with slop, make it harder for people to find real podcasts. People will eventually give up and just click on slop (so they think). They’re trying to corner the market through attrition.
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.
Imagine 1,000,000 mini Joe Rogans ceaselessly pumping unlimited bespoke brain poison into the minds of millions (if not 10s of millions) of Americans. Seems bad.
Flood the market with slop, make it harder for people to find real podcasts. People will eventually give up and just click on slop (so they think). They’re trying to corner the market through attrition.