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.



The only way companies are gonna be able to monetize AI…
Is charging a premium to have a store with no AI slop.
Then once everyone subscribes to that store, change it so there is AI slop in it anyway, just in a “limited form,” and you have to raise your subscription to the “Premium Plus” model to get rid of it.
Ah, the Etsy strategy
And then that will have slop anyway.
I downloaded a 2021 kiwix archive of wikipedia so I still have an AI free version of knowledge.
Have not heard of kiwix before this and, seeing as my work has me frequenting a number of conenction dead zones, I can not communicate how valuable this tip is for me and my needs. My genuine thanks for sharing, stranger.
My brain kneejerked and went “duh just grab the latest…. …ohhh”
Off to download yet another kiwix file, thanks for the tip friend
Ah, the version with uncorrected errors. I suppose it has a certain charm.