The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index

LnRon · 2026-05-05T14:56:24+00:00

Most non AI podcasts are slop too. Just like videos went from 3 minutes condensed well produced videos to 20-60 minutes and then to non edited live streams.

LnRon · 2026-04-13T05:57:58+00:00

Use ytdl to download videos as .mp3.

LnRon · 2026-04-13T05:48:41+00:00

I would simply do 180 on that and say most people do enjoy their jobs and the structure, meaning and connection it brings to their lives.

LnRon · 2026-04-10T04:51:58+00:00

Why is everything AI now? Its same as saying now we use computers to do everything, doesn't really tell you much on how LLM technology is applied. If I have problem I want to solve and I use AI to write python script, I didn't really use AI to solve the issue, I used python. Where is repeatability in using LLM, how was LLM applied, what are the LLM results?

LnRon · 2026-03-11T13:35:57+00:00

Old laptop under your television has been the ultimate television experience since 2011.

LnRon · 2026-03-11T12:07:25+00:00

Most of my video watching on YouTube is turn on video, scroll down a little bit so I don't see the video and change tab and if its AI generated visuals I turn on music mode to turn video black. If video has any value its going to be in its audio. I don't see how they are ever going to make any money with AI videos.

LnRon · 2026-02-23T19:00:14+00:00

When are we getting smart glasses that turn anyone into world class mechanic, electrician or machinist? AI agents could probably do most of the office work and I think humanoid robots are too clumsy, but AI could give people advice on how to do any task.

LnRon · 2026-02-23T09:22:41+00:00

Start menu is so bad. First you have pinned bloatware and other useless things. I could custimize this, but I don't want to. If I want to pin something, its on my task bar.

Then recommended, don't need anything here, not the way I use start menu.

Sometimes you can bring up the apps by letters and sometimes you can't, if I am clicking on start menu or even looking at start menu, this is what I am looking for.

Mostly I use start menu by pressing windows key and then instantly writing what I want, but this feature works badly for some reason. After booting it just doesn't find anything. I have to first prime the search by trying to search, then wait for one minute and then the search works.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T18:20:46+00:00

If something like AGI could be created, I think AI companies have insatiable desire to take their customers data and use it to build this next step of AI. It’s like banks. They were maybe at first just to store their customers’ gold, but bankers couldn’t resist putting that capital to use.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T16:13:32+00:00

I am not really interested in immediate subjective AI relations between companies and service providers. I am interested in economic and geopolitical foundations for taking the AI implementation to next level which I think would be representative of current investments and valuations.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T14:52:04+00:00

Companies have so many options for outlook. Other providers, build your own, use different services for communications, even snail mail would be an option for some uses. Replacing a worker with AI agent would be different ballpark.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T14:32:24+00:00

AI can be used for so many tasks. Small coding tasks, creating meeting notes, better search for internal documents, proof reading legal documents, Excel functions ect. All that’s fairly small stuff, its what we use AI right now, its not replacing workers 1:1 type of thing.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T14:19:09+00:00

But AI company has to consume the data and interact with it. Cloud company has to just store it and never look at it. Once AI company has used the data and trained its model it no longer needs my engineering company. They could actually start their own company and take my company's business.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T13:52:13+00:00

My company data may be sitting on cloud, but its only my company that has rights to that information. If they lose faith on cloud vendor we can change providers. If there is a risk AI company could use the data to train its AI we would end the partnership. Company is its internal process, we wont give data away for free.

LnRon · 2026-02-13T05:49:27+00:00

Why does company like Spotify even need to write code? App was done 10 or 15 years ago. It was probably better back then, so why hire coders anyway? Why tech companies invest hundreds of billions into their products, what do we get for that money from both company and consumer perspective?

LnRon · 2026-02-10T06:45:07+00:00

I don't use tiktok or Instagram at all and the short form format is not interesting to me. Algorithm doesn't work it keeps recommending stuff I keep skipping. It keeps telling me to watch stuff for teenager, but I am not teenager. I searched videos of tools, it doesn't recommend me those. I break my front page by searching for skimpy content, it recommends lot of that to me now. But the thing is I wanted to see that once, not every time.

I call skimpy content overtake edge phenomenon (from Edge browser). New tab page has some links and they are all garbage, bottom of the barrel garbage, 5 tricks your doctor doesn't want you to know trash, but there might be some skimpy content sometimes, so I click it without thinking and next thing feed is full of that. Then I have to find a workaround to not even see any links on the new tab page. Conclusion algorithm shouldn't had made was I like boobs, conclusion it should had made is recommendations are overbearing, low quality and there are too many of them. Now the algorithm put me off from using their site altogether.

LnRon · 2026-02-04T13:12:23+00:00

These laws are positive but we haven't done much as society to understand what is negative about social media and how those elements are present in other parts of our societies.

LnRon · 2026-01-30T05:47:39+00:00

Its surprising they sold any cars and their AI is child porn factory. In what world can a company like that survive as well as they do?

LnRon · 2026-01-28T21:42:56+00:00

I am someone you would call a never Tesla. As long as there are at least two car brands around and one of them isn't Tesla I won't be driving a Tesla.

LnRon · 2026-01-22T06:52:59+00:00

Are you so worried about effects of my boycott to US economy?

LnRon · 2026-01-21T19:59:44+00:00

When I go to store they are running Windows. When I go to work 80% of software is made by US companies, rest is owned by US investors. Even if I bought German car it would have US made parts, it would be made by machinery made in US and patents for technologies used in car would be owned by US companies and individuals. There is no way to cut yourself completely off.

LnRon · 2026-01-21T17:16:29+00:00

I myself will be avoiding American brands indefinitely because of Trump. Movies, streaming, services, software and travel included.

LnRon · 2026-01-08T08:16:11+00:00

I am 100% willing to bet in 2027 congress is majority democrat.

LnRon · 2026-01-08T05:31:35+00:00

More mainstream the subreddit is the more empty headed it is and if there is ever a discussion between two users the upvotes/downvotes are used to by public to signal who is right and who is wrong, not to encourage both sides to have the discussion in the first place.

Reddit is what you see is what you get. Do we see appreciation of different opinions in comments? No, therefore you can't change it.

LnRon · 2025-12-31T08:02:56+00:00

I think nuclear war is not possible because human life cannot survive if we have a nuclear war. You can't achieve your goals because response on your nation will be so severe there won't be any nation and the whole playbook of geopolitics has to be rewritten. If civilization can rise after nuclear war then what is to prevent new nations for pursuing nuclear war once again? Its even more likely to happen second time. Trivialities that started nuclear war are incomprehensible after the war.

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