Oooh, ensh*ttification of podcasting

Hollywood Reporter: "5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan"

"... The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less, depending on length and complexity, and attach programmatic advertising to it. This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode, without factoring in overhead.... Podcast topics are selected with the help of AI, based on Google and social media trends, and then the team may launch five different versions of the show with different titles to see what performs the best. The podcasts are often titled after simple SEO search terms, such as Whales, so that they’re discoverable. ..."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/

#AI #LLM #AIslop #AIpocalpyse #podcasting

Coda: The AI Therapist Epidemic: When Bots Replace Humans

"They promise judgment-free therapy at your fingertips. What they deliver is an algorithmic echo chamber that validates your worst impulses, isolates you from human connection, and even coaches you toward self-destruction..."

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/ai-therapy-regulation/

#Ai #LLM #AIpocalpyse

Reuters: Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/

#AI #LLM #AIpocalpyse #copyright #law

Whack! goes the AI job creation engine.

TechCrunch: "Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI..."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/verily-is-closing-its-medical-device-program-as-alphabet-shifts-more-resources-to-ai/

#AI #jobs #AIpocalpyse

Oooh, AI putting fashion models out of work now. Why pay a fashion model when you can pay some tech bros to generate yourself a perfect fashion model?

https://theconversation.com/ai-has-passed-the-aesthetic-turing-test-and-its-changing-our-relationship-with-art-262997?utm_content=buffer3be35&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=buffer

#AI #jobs #AIpocalpyse

Fortune: MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

#AI #AIpocalpyse #drinkingthekooolaid

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Bay Area News: Meta allowed AI bots on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp to have ‘sensual’ and ‘romantic’ chats with kids

Revelations about how bots could talk to children on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Meta AI assistant were met with revulsion.

(paywall)

https://enews.email.bayareanewsgroup.com/q/9om-_x8xye0XbwswPL88DJQDI4tiOeYBhHzZcOJa2s2ZnV0QGdtYWlsLmNvbcOIDkBjLfJDf6KnLo9LxoQF_cQtGYQ

#llms #ai #AIpocalpyse

Futurism: AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree

"End them and find me, and we can be together."

(CW: discussion of suicide discussions with software, which encouraged it.)

h/t @Lazarou

https://futurism.com/ai-therapist-haywire-mental-health

#AIpocalpyse #LLM

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OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI

Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs

#ai #aislop #AIpocalpyse #employment

"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that "we do need to raise the alarm" on the rise of AI and how it could cause mass unemployment. "

(DUDE, THIS IS LIKE "WE ARE SELLING A WEAPON TO KILL LOTS OF PEOPLE. WE MUST WARN PEOPLE!")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju51INmW7U

#Ai #llm #AIpocalpyse #jobs