[joelanman]

a few real harms:

- massively inefficient use of energy, water and other resources at a time we really need to address climate crisis

- ai 'slop' with myriad mistakes and biases performing a mass DDOS on people trying to learn things and know what's true

- moving resources away from actually producing factual and original content

[sodality2]

Thank you, these are mostly extremely valid complaints. I hope with time these come to be inefficiencies that can be moved past (AI models turn into local-first energy efficient tools, becomes more intelligent at summarization). Right now though, wholeheartedly agree.

The last one seems to be irrelevant for this specific use case - the content is produced, it's put into an easier to digest format. No one thought sparknotes would kill books.

[joelanman]

I was referring to real podcasts