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Do people actually enjoy this type of AI-generated "podcasts" vs human-produced shows? As a podcast listener, I lose interest if I can tell the audio is AI-gen

• NitpickLawyer 2y ago
  If you had received one of these podcasts, say 3-5 years ago, I guarantee you wouldn't be able to tell it's AI generated. And I'm willing to bet it's valid for 90%+ of the people here, even those heavily involved in the field. The quality of the voices, the mimicking of umms, and ahhs, the subtle speaking over each other, they really are extremely impressive. If you want you can do a test with people that haven't heard about the tech. Have it generate something you know they'll enjoy, maybe 2-3 min long, and have them listen to it without knowing it's AI generated. Ask them about the subject, and see if anyone mentions anything about being fake. You'll be surprised.
  • kombookcha 2y ago
    > 3-5 years ago, I guarantee you wouldn't be able to tell it's AI generated You would however be able to tell that it was extremely obnoxious and bland, and without the novelty of the technical trick, you would not be listening to it.
    • Kiro 2y ago
      Not true. I gave it a few documents and webpages of things I'm interested in and it was surprisingly engaging.
      • kombookcha 2y ago
        I strongly doubt that you're gonna be listening to this stuff recreationally once the novelty wears off, but if I'm wrong and you actually enjoy listening to two robots pretend to be excited about your documents and webpages long term, then have fun with that I guess.
• abraxas 2y ago
  would you know it's AI if you didn't know going into it?
• emsixteen 2y ago
  > As a podcast listener, I lose interest if I can tell the audio is AI-generated... I've never naturally come across a podcast that's AI generated to have this reaction.
  • empath75 2y ago
    Youtube is full of AI generated glurge now, though.
    • shinycode 2y ago
      I hate those videos so much. It would be awesome to have all AI crap removed from the paid version of YouTube
• Quothling 2y ago
  I'm not really a podcast listener. I've listened to maybe 20 of over the past decade, but I sometimes hear my wife listen to some. I honestly couldn't tell that this one was AI generated and it wasn't immediately obvious (for me) from the site either. So I spent a few minutes making sure it actually was AI. To me it sounded a lot like most of the English podcasts my wife has listened to, a lot of those true crime ones and it frankly could easily have been one of the tech podcast that I've listened to over the years. I imagine it'll be even harder to know if regular pod casters feed the AI a few episode they've made, to make it learn how to talk like they do. Like, would you really know if your true crime pod casters skipped a week if the AI sounded like them? I guess I don't really fall into the category for your question as I'm not a pod cast listener.
• thih9 2y ago
  I think that’s the point - it’s increasingly more difficult to tell whether the content or parts of it are AI generated.