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The trouble with slop

In what some are calling the "Slop-pocalypse," a podcast startup is cranking out 3,000 podcasts a week. What should Apple and Spotify do?

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Pete Pachal
Sep 18, 2025
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An AI startup has reduced the cost of creating podcasts to $1 an episode. Will this beget a downpour of slop? (Credit: Midjourney)

The term "AI slop" gets thrown around a lot, and I made an attempt to better define it earlier this year. Briefly: Not all AI-generated content is slop, but virtually all slop today comes from AI. Quality—or rather the lack o…

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