I remember following a lot of websites over the years because they had good content, but they often sold out and started crating listicles and other content-for-the-sake-of-content instead of the kinds of stuff that drew my interest in the first place. A.I. just streamlines that process. It didn't add value when hack writers or overseas labor was used. It won't add value when A.I. does it, either. But it's the shiny new thing everyone obsesses over.
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I think it is going to go deeper than the useless "5 things" lists for clicks. I think it is going to get weirder and weirder, yet it will be normalized rapidly by audiences that are just looking to be entertained, not caring about how or why, or what it means to their lives.
What happened to entertainment requiring skill?
We already have shitty A.I.-narrated TikTok videos and whatnot, and the cost versus payout must make them worthwhile, but I really wish I had a way to automatically exclude them from all playlists on all video sites before I even see them to scroll past. I think this kind of thing might work for the short term for short form video just to grab eyeballs for 45 seconds, but it won't really impact the podcasting market. I hope.
and the cost versus payout must make them worthwhile
The cost is close to zero, isn't it?
I don't look at tiktok, or anything like that at all. The only thing I scroll is Hive.
but it won't really impact the podcasting market.
I think it will in time, but for now at least, most of the podcasts are built on the personalities of the podcaster and the guests, not the content of the podcast. It makes a difference.