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Speaker 1: So an AI podcasting machine churning out three thousand episodes

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Speaker 1: a week and rob bad news people are listening. This

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Speaker 1: is called Inception Point AI. It's a startup. They started

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Speaker 1: with eight employees and they produce three thousand AI generated

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Speaker 1: episodes per week. They already have at least one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy five thousand AI podcast episodes about what well

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Speaker 1: they have different things. Okay, they have one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty different host personas. These aren't real people, so they're personas.

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Speaker 1: And these personas have backstories, flaws, humors, and they range

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Speaker 1: from different things. For example, there's one host persona named

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Speaker 1: Kai who is a confidence coach. This persona has a

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Speaker 1: British voice and offers short self help episodes. There's another one,

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Speaker 1: Vivian Steel, which is celeb Confidential, and this one covers

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Speaker 1: celebrity gossip but apparently has a robotic tone.

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Speaker 2: There's a an episode of the Office where they put

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Speaker 2: they finally put the you know this is whatever ten

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Speaker 2: fifteen years ago, but they finally put the ability to

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Speaker 2: buy paper online, and it's dwighte As convinced he can

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Speaker 2: beat the computer and so the whole day is him

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Speaker 2: just working as hard as he possibly can to beat

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Speaker 2: the computer, and they keep a tally. And of course

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Speaker 2: it's the office, so there's all sorts of ridiculous stuff happening.

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Speaker 3: But is that where we're at now?

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Speaker 1: Is that where we're going?

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Speaker 3: Am I Dwight and I'm now fighting? You're trying to

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Speaker 3: beat the comptor the computer?

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Speaker 2: I think?

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Speaker 1: So. Episodes cost just one dollar each to produce, and

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Speaker 1: this company will make a profit if only twenty people

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Speaker 1: listen to an episode.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're done as a country, right, so they say.

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Speaker 1: The topics range from localized weather and pollen trackers to

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Speaker 1: biographies and also cultural events. What they do is they

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Speaker 1: have AI scan the internet for I, and then a

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Speaker 1: human team will pair topics with the personalities and just

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Speaker 1: with a few prompts boop, produce an episode.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, have you heard any of these? Is there

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Speaker 2: any passion from these people?

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Speaker 1: The reports are that the hosts the personas have a

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Speaker 1: very monotone delivery, right, and very robotics. Some of them

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Speaker 1: even have Instagram pages to go along with it.

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Speaker 2: Who would follow an Instagram page of a not real person? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: People do?

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Speaker 1: People do? So this company is on track to produce

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand episodes by the end of

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Speaker 1: this year. Okay, so critics, of course are calling it

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Speaker 1: AI slop.

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Speaker 2: Right, right, And look, I've said and I maintain that

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Speaker 2: AI cannot recreate my DNA. AI cannot recreate my life experience.

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Speaker 2: AI cannot recreate my DNA, my life experience, my passion,

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Speaker 2: my drive, my thing that motivates me every day to

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Speaker 2: produce this, to put together this. Well, you put together

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Speaker 2: radio show. I show up and talk on this radio show, right,

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Speaker 2: like I can't. keV produces you. You put it together.

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Speaker 2: I just show up and talk.

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Speaker 3: But they but like, right, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: AI is not gonna stomach ache over it.

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Speaker 2: But that's the point. So you can't do that, but

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Speaker 2: it is keV. This would be a question for you

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Speaker 2: if you knew a woman was fake, would you follow

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Speaker 2: the Instagram account?

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Speaker 3: No? No, Right, that seems pretty pointless to well.

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Speaker 2: Right, but there are people who do that, right, they

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Speaker 2: have AI girlfriends, or they have a robot girlfriends or right.

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Speaker 1: So why there's a country music artist that's all AI

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Speaker 1: when it's getting millions of listens?

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Speaker 2: What joy would you get in listening to a show

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Speaker 2: in which there's no human experience because part of talk

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Speaker 2: radio or podcasting or whatever whoever you're listening to is

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Speaker 2: it's like with music, right, their expections, Yeah, their experience

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Speaker 2: is reflected in the content, and there's no experience reflected

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Speaker 2: in this content. It's just it's not even real. So

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Speaker 2: who would do that, who would invest in that? Who's

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Speaker 2: that lonely for companionship.

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Speaker 1: Or just needing the noise in the background. So this

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Speaker 1: company's podcast listenership five hundred and eighty four million listeners

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Speaker 1: this past year, and they're projected to get six hundred

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Speaker 1: and nineteen million listens next year.

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Speaker 3: It's all over