So basically podcast spam Top 5 1. African Prince who wants to give people his money 2. Dead relative who has a vast unclaimed estate 3. Person who can redesign your website they just need your GitHub Credentials 4. Amz0n Podcast, click link to subscribe 5. Every listener is a lottery winner

May books written by AI find thesame fate. A lonely abyss somewhere untouched and forgotten.

Remember: there's no audience for AI-produced content. Nobody in the AI ecosystem is there to read or listen - only to publish their own slop.

Doesn't this imply that artists will be pretty well insulated from the impacts of AI? It feels like there's a real tension between holding this position while also holding the position that AI poses a threat to the arts. If there's no audience, there's no threat?

I always saw the “AI as a threat to the arts” more of a pipeline problem, established artists will be fine, but the commercial artists (of which many are, certainly while emerging) work will tank because audience value is usually secondary there.

haha that article "they're just lazy luddites" lol

But, see, according to Wright half the people (??) on the planet will be AI so THEY are the target audience. AI-generated podcasts for AI listeners. What a future to look forward to!

These people play a video game and see all the NPCs walkin around and go, “why not me, why not my reality”

@saramchenry.bsky.social @tommchenry.bsky.social ONE BOOK THEORY

whatever the Baader Meinhof effect is for "applicable wisdom"

The most prominent use cases for AI content are in situations with captive audiences - a colleague or a professor is obliged to consume your slop whether they like it or not. The calculus for "good enough" out in the free market shifts dramatically against AI.

Perhaps also the video equivalent of deliberately-misspelled phishing emails? As in, anyone dumb enough to like it is a good mark for other stuff?

And your colleagues will hate you bsky.app/profile/spav...

And it could be plausible to output that many things, but there is a hard and fast limit to the amount of output one person can create per day, and that is 24 hours, and anything beyond that is automatically in the category of slop.

It only works if people cannot reliably distinguish quality, perhaps because they're being inundated with so much crap that they don't have time to evaluate each option. Cue LLMs *actual* killer application: spam.

Given the glut of media "discussion" this bar may be reached for a lot of the viewer base.

And whichever medium goes through this will die, or at least become a shadow of itself. Why did people grow to hate email? Both the literal spam, and the endless flood of “normal” emails that effectively are spam as well

Like if email worked like it originally did, or arguably as it was intended, would anyone actually prefer Slack? I sure as hell wouldn’t (and I actually don’t even prefer it with the shitty version of email that exists)

It's a pyramid scheme in which the stones are mass-less and invisible....

Billion-dollar startup idea: a service to sell to AI slop generators that will subscribe and download to boost their numbers. Gotta fill that gap in the ecosystem.

AI as a giant MLM scheme that will eat the world…

Slop Rich Quick schemes

So much of "dead Internet theory" are just recursive loops like this Like all the Instagram "financial influencers" who make money by selling classes about making money by selling classes on making money.

An MLM in which the goal is to not be on the wrong end of the flow of slop... I could swear that's a level from an Earthworm Jim game It's like the geocities an angelfire boom except dumb and zero gratification unlike when you finally link those gifs and get the midi version a Korn song working.

The whole gen-AI system is deeply parasitic.

True, but in my world, founders who treat content as noise miss the real game. Investors aren’t scrolling for entertainment, they’re scanning for signals of authority. What would change if every post you made positioned you as inevitable instead of just visible?

The audience is AI listening bots that will summarize the content for other AIs to email you, which will be summarized by your AI email reader before being read by your AI assistant

pavel i have made 300,000 podcast episodes this week alone, i am on fire (jk that's the world, because i used all the water)

dave i am so stoked for ur success, i will send 300,000 agents to listen to ur episodes and summarize them to each other

ur my ride or die, man

So they’re entirely relying on people accidentally listening to these and it doesn’t matter that they’ll never listen again because they churn out so much rubbish that someone somewhere will click the thing without realising it’s shit?

Surely that isn’t sustainable in the long term…

I've been thinking about that "generative" bit in "generative AI". I mean, slime moulds generate things.

Slime molds are cool tho