AI Replaces Humans… for Podcasts. Yep, More AI Wonkiness
May 7, 2026
Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.
What do you make of this sentence?
… Jeanine Wright, the CEO of an AI podcasting company called Inception Point AI told the Hollywood Reporter, “We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life.”
The passage comes from a Gizmodo write up titled “More Than a Third of All New Podcasts Are AI-Generated.” I think there are about eight billion people on earth. The near future is ambiguous. Let’s call it 2027. Now between the present day and 2027, four billion of the eight billion people will be smart software.
Thanks, Venice.ai. Good enough.
For me the sentence is a variant of the Jabberwocky poem in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.” It sounds like what might be a language. But it is nonsense. Let’s assume that there will be 8.6 billion people on earth at the end of 2027. That means based on the information in the cited article 4.3 billion “people on the planet” will be AI.
Because the logic of the sentence stopped me in my tracks, I thought about what the author was trying to convey; for example:
- AI would kill half of earth’s population and that missing half would be populated by smart software. I assume these are manifestations, not actual and very weird
- When half of the world’s population, what impact do erroneous information and hallucinatory output have on the remaining but diminished millions?
- Who will step forward and run this human-disintermediated operation?
But what about the podcasts? The write up says:
At the time Bloomberg reported on the AI numbers from Podcast Index, an astonishing 39% of new podcasts created in the last day were found to be AI generated. As of this writing, it was 35.4%—corresponding to a total of 485 newly created AI-generated podcast feeds in the past day. The single top publisher of podcasts, according to Podcast Index, was Inception Point AI, responsible for 23.6% of total new podcast output.
When? “At the time.” Okay. What’s going on? It seems to me that the write up is concerned that humans just want audio content. Therefore, podcasts generated by humans are meeting the need.
Is the faux content valueless? The article does not say. Is the faux content going to cause people to be happy, sad, or indifferent?
Several observations:
- I try to avoid AI outputs. My tactics may prove futile. Half of the people on earth will be AI, so I will just go with the flow. I have, if the article is anywhere near what turns out to be reality, lost the battle.
- The craziness of the sentence about bringing “those people to life” illustrates what might be a slight flaw in the Jabberwock output. For me, crazy is crazy. It manifests itself. No smart software required.
- The point of outputs is to provide information. If the output contains logical errors, fake data, or informational weirdness, the cumulative impact is probably negative.
Net net: This write up seems to be a “the sky is falling” assertion presented as good news. Yep, crazy. Just like the need for data centers and the fact that different AI systems use one another to become more homogeneous.
Stephen E Arnold, May 7, 2026
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