Approaching Half of New Podcasts Appear to Be AI Slop

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Of the 10,871 new podcast feeds created in the past nine days, 4,243 of them, or 39 percent, have signs of being AI-generated, data from the Podcast Index cited by Bloomberg last week showed. “It’s absurd,” Dave Jones, who runs the Podcast Index, said on his own show last week, per the outlet.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/half-ai-podcasts-slop

Adobe Acrobat uses AI to turn your PDFs into podcasts

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Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visual formats. These updates include chat-based editing and the ability to generate personalized podcasts and presentations based on your docs, which are now available in Acrobat Studio — the AI-infused document workspace app that’s distinct from Adobe’s basic PDF reader.

https://www.theverge.com/news/864811/adobe-acrobat-studio-generate-podcast-presentation