Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored

Here's the thing about podcasts: There are too many of them. More than 4 million, to be precise, according to the database Podcast Index. In the past three days alone, nearly 103,000 individual podcast episodes were published online, a deluge of audio content so voluminous that listeners need never run out of options. You could spend the rest of your life working through the existing true crime catalog on Apple Podcasts or the sports chat shows on Spotify and end up dying of old age in 2070 while Michael Barbaro reads an ad for Mailchimp to your corpse. In the ongoing generative AI gold rush, though, opportunistic entrepreneurs are looking for entry into even the most saturated markets.