It’s not exclusive to the music industry. The sheer volume of AI-generated podcast content is beginning to affect traditional discovery methods across the industry that podcast creators and their listeners rely on. Over a period of just nine days, nearly 39% of new podcast feeds were identified as potentially AI-generated. This rising trend in “podslop” was recently illustrated by data from the Podcast Index. Most of these shows target high-volume search terms, such as health and wellness or celebrity biographies.
Source: The Audio Landscape is Overrun by AI ‘Podslop’—It’s Not Just a Music Industry Problem