this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
187 points (99.0% liked)
Fuck AI
4015 readers
291 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Did you see the part where they pick topics that are trending on google via AI? So they will make a thousand podcasts about whale facts that are all wrong because they think it will fet more clicks?
I actually can't believe companies are cool with hosting and storing all this garbage on their servers that they complain are costing them so much money these days to make $5 for a group like this.
Yup, it's a preposterous business model.
They're churning out a thousand different "podcasts" in the hopes that maybe 20 people will listen to 1, and that 1 will get new episodes?
They're viewing podcasts as a business + marketing exercise, which ignores the whole reason that podcasts became popular in the first place; unique creators making unique works as a labour of love.
This could also be SEO'd to shit if targeted. It would end up all being about products and scams.
All the while jacking up my electric and water bill to support these data centers use. Need legislation to push the burden on these companies and not the general public, especially people like me who don't use or support this shit.
If they marketed it as "Hallucinating about whales for an hour" it might get genuine interest.